At BNA we have a problem with use of AOLserver in terms of
how it handles the Location parameter value. The Location
is a fixed value that is a global constant for the
AOLserver process.
In our virtual hosting environment on our production
machines this a problem. The problem is as follows:
I'm confused. Browsers are supposed to handle relative URL
redirection, so I don't understand why a relative redirect is being
changed to absolute by this routine. If it were just kept relative
(i.e., original code was removed instead of adding new code), then
relative redirect requests could
+-- On Dec 7, Jim Wilcoxson said:
I'm confused. Browsers are supposed to handle relative URL
redirection,
No, they're not. Some (including IE and Mozilla, I believe) do handle
relative URLs, but the HTTP/1.1 standard requires the Location header to
contain an absolute URL.
On 2001.12.07, Jim Wilcoxson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm confused. Browsers are supposed to handle relative URL
redirection,
They are?
You're right; you're confused. Perhaps browsers _do_ support
relative URL redirection because so many people have foolishly
violated the HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0
On 2001.12.07, Peter M. Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only concern I have is a security concern
I looked at security as a possibility as well and since his solution
uses DStrings (which are growable, right?) then you don't have to
necessarily worry about buffer overflow.
However,
+-- On Dec 7, Dossy said:
However, resource starvation/denial of service is a serious
potential problem. Fire up a couple hundred connections where
you feed a very large Host: string ...
On the contrary, AOLserver limits both the size of each HTTP header
line (default 8192 bytes),
However, resource starvation/denial of service is a serious
potential problem. Fire up a couple hundred connections where
you feed a very large Host: string ...
Go to any web site and hit its search engine 200 times. It will most
likely die a horrible death. In fact, any routine request to
On 2001.12.07, Rob Mayoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+-- On Dec 7, Dossy said:
However, resource starvation/denial of service is a serious
potential problem. Fire up a couple hundred connections where
you feed a very large Host: string ...
On the contrary, AOLserver limits both
