Bugs item #446689, was opened at 2001-08-01 03:04 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=103152&aid=446689&group_id=3152
Category: API: C Group: aolserver4_0 >Status: Pending >Resolution: Later Priority: 1 Submitted By: Jerry Asher (jerryasher) Assigned to: Kriston Rehberg (kriston) Summary: nsreturnredirect isn't RFC2068 compliant Initial Comment: This is "broken" in aolserver 4, but is also broken in the AOLserver 3.x series. According to RFC 2068, Section 14.30, Location, the Location field must be an absoluteURI. ns_returnredirect doesn't ensure this and will gleefully create and return "relative urls". So if a page at /foo/bar does something like: ns_returnredirect index.tcl (presumably intending that the browser should redirect to /foo/bar/nextpage.tcl) What will be returned is: Location: nextpage.tcl It turns out that many browsers such as IE and Netscape understand this and will do the right thing, but other browsers and "browser like simulations" such as ns_httpget fail to "do the right thing" and end up returning a 404 (ns_httpget will look for http://host/nextpage.tcl) (I encountered this in both AOLserver/ns_httpget as well as on a web server load tester.) Suggested solutions: 1. Have ns_returnredirect throw an error if the passed in location isn't an absoluteURI (that places the responsibility on the developer to pass in absoluteURIs.) 2. Follow the suggestion of the ACS routine ad_returnredirect and check the location. If it's not an absoluteURI, try and create one using the state of the current connection (using the current directory and the value of the HOST field and/or the driver location.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Kriston Rehberg (kriston) Date: 2002-03-21 10:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=16427 Can you send a patch that addresses this? We really don't have the inclination to do it ourselves at this time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Kriston Rehberg (kriston) Date: 2002-03-19 12:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=16427 The caller should be sure to do the Right Thing in this case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=103152&aid=446689&group_id=3152
