The following reply was made to PR mod_cgi/1292; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lee Pollington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Livermore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: mod_cgi/1292: post method randomly works
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
If you can supply us with a full packet tcpdump of the entire session
between the client and server then we can study it and decide if it's a
browser bug, and if so figure out if we can work around it. If turning
off keepalive didn't help you then this is likely a different bug.
(Although it gets tiring working around client bugs ...)
Do this:
tcpdump -s 1514 -w dumpfile tcp port 80 and host client.ip.addr
on the webserver as root, and then launch navigator on the client, and
cause the bug to occur. Then quit navigator on the client. Then hit ^C
on the tcpdump session.
gzip the dumpfile and if it's small (<100k) then mail it to us. If it's
large then put it somewhere and send us the URL.
Note that passwords and such sent from the client will be captured in
this, so use non-sensitive data.
Dean
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Lee Pollington wrote:
> thanks for the response -
>
> I tried turning keepalive off, however the
> problem persisted, we saw it on Netscape
> 3.03 Unix, 3.01 NT, and 3.0 95, and
> communicator professional. I didn't
> test IE. I found no randomness, it always
> occured, however the data did sometimes get
> through from the post when the browser was
> reloaded.
>
> I'm sorry to hear you will not be continuing with
> this, I have had to revert to 1.2.0 (where the problem
> doesn't exist), and loose the benefits I found in 1.2.4,
> namely the fewest server errors we have ever had
>
> If you want us to liase on a tcp test, or whatever
> I will talk to our Unix adminstrators about setting
> something up
>
> thanks again for the prompt response
>
> Lee
>
> > ----------
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 1997 1:38 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: mod_cgi/1292: post method randomly works
> >
> > Synopsis: post method randomly works
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> > State-Changed-By: dgaudet
> > State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 21 17:38:31 PDT 1997
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > This is probably the same problem as that described in
> > PR#1142 <http://bugs.apache.org/index/full/1142>. I have
> > tracked that problem to a bug in Navigator when it deals
> > with keep-alive connections. I have been unable to produce
> > a simple test example, or to narrow down which versions cause
> > it. It also appears that there is no workaround other than
> > to disable all keep-alive, something which is not a workaround
> > at all in my books. So I've given up researching this
> > problem for now.
> >
> > Dean
> >
>
