Mark, I greatly appreciate the detailed reply. I’ll see if I can get JustHost to fix this for me, although they haven’t been at all responsive which is why I posted a bug report. Maybe another fix would be for me to install Mailman into a directory I can access.
Thanks again, Rob. > On Apr 10, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > The underlying issue is redirects lose POST data. Most mainstream > browsers when receiving a 301 or 302 in response to a POST will issue a > GET of the new URI. HTTP 1.1 defined 307 and 308 redirects to > specifically say that the browser should use the same request method for > the new URI, but if the server is issuing a 301 or 302 redirect rather > than a 307 or 308, the POST data is lost. > > Your issue is not due to a Mailman change as the only change in this > area was in Mailman 2.1.12 and that change made more URLs relative, not > fewer. However, Your Mailman installation is cPanel, and this could be a > cPanel issue. See http://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%20and%20CPanel , but > http://noonway.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com is definitely being > redirected to > http://just63.justhost.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com with a 301 > redirect. Many other cPanel Mailman hosts don't do this redirection as > it breaks other things too. > > Depending on how much access you have to the actual Mailman installation > on the server, you may be able to change things. At around line 204 in > Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py you'll see > > # Now print the results and we're done. Short circuit for when there > # are no pending requests, but be sure to save the results! > admindburl = mlist.GetScriptURL('admindb', absolute=1) > > if you remove the ", absolute=1" from the last of those to make it > > admindburl = mlist.GetScriptURL('admindb') > > that should make the form action URL relative. > > As for changing this in the upstream code, there are several places > where absolute URLs are generated in this way. I don't know the > historical reasons for this or what the unintended consequences might be > if they were changed, so I'm reluctant to do so. > > It definitely appears that just63.justhost.com has made mods to the > basic cPanel Mailman, e.g. the "delegated access" on the admin(db) login > pages and the lack of a link in the footer to "Overview of all > noonway.com mailing lists" (which is another thing that wouldn't work > because of the redirect), so they ought to fix this too. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568547 > > Title: > admindb POST fails due to absolute addressing > > Status in GNU Mailman: > New > > Bug description: > The shared server I use employs re-directs from my domain name to > their local server domain name. This is causing form submission POSTs > to fail in the ADMINDB pages used to moderate user posts, but not in > the ADMIN pages used to manage the Mailman list. A review of the > server code reveals why - > > The ADMIN pages use relative addressing in the form POST, so redirects are > not an issue. > Whereas the ADMINDB pages use absolute addressing in the form POST. See > examples below from my website - > > THIS WORKS - From http://just63.justhost.com/mailman/admin/humor_noonway.com > <FORM action="../admin/humor_noonway.com/general" method="POST" > > > > THIS DOESN'T WORK - From > http://just63.justhost.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com > <FORM action="http://noonway.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com"; > method="POST" > > > This hasn't been an issue for the 12 years I've used Mailman to manage > user posts, but all of a sudden user post management is non- > functional. I can't tell if this is a change in my shared server > setup, or an update to Mailman 2.1.20 causing this. > > There are probably Apache server settings I could change to solve > this, but I can't access the folders needed to do so on a shared > server. Is there a reason why the ADMINDB code couldn't be changed to > use relative addressing like the code in ADMIN? > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1568547/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568547 Title: admindb POST fails due to absolute addressing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1568547/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailman-coders mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-coders
