>Number: 779 >Category: other >Synopsis: Netscape "feature" doesn't work with Apache proxy server. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 24 10:10:00 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2 >Environment: Client: Linux xxxx.barahir.com 2.0.30 #4 Wed May 7 17:38:16 PDT 1997 i586 Server: Linux router.barahir.com 2.0.30 #4 Tue Jun 17 12:04:11 PDT 1997 i486 >Description: A ncie feature of Netscape Navigator (version 3.01 used) is that a simple entry of, say, a company name or other single word will be expanded to a full URL. Example: Location: infoseek expands to Location: http://www.infoseek.com
Setting up the client to use a proxy makes breaks this feature, with the proxy saying it can't resolve the request. Apache logs show an attempt to reach http://infoseek in the above example. This may be a Netscape bug, but I'd like to know for sure if there is a way to tell Apache to honor these requests by simply trying the expansion first. >How-To-Repeat: Navigator client pointing to an Apache 1.2 proxy server. Type any single word in the Location: field. >Fix: A fairly simple rewrite rule that will be tried before failure >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
