The technical reason is that phorum doesn't emit a legal "Location:"
header. According to the spec:
Location = "Location" ":" absoluteURI
while what was produced was "Location: list.php?f=1"
My job involves dealing with "broken" http services all over the world,
so I know that the use of a relative URI in the Location header is a
common thing. Since both netscape and msie work fine with the relative
URIs, no one really cares about it. It is still broken, though! :-)
So, htdig should probably be changed to allow a relative URI in the
Location header.
Bart van Bragt wrote:
>
> I've installed HTdig a few days ago and it is working perfectly! Well,
> not perfect, if that was true I guess I wouldn't be posting this
> message. Everything works great and it indexes everything except for
> one part of the site (www.welshcob.nl).
>
> On www.welshcob.nl/forum/ I have Phorum (www.phorum.org) running. This
> is a PHP script (index.php). Since I have only one forum at the moment
> the only thing the index.php script does is sending out a Location
> header. The problem is that there is a ? in the uri that it sends out.
> Here is a piece of the output of rundig -vvv
>
> --------------
> [snip]
> pick: www.welshcob.nl, # servers = 1
> 10:10:1:http://www.welshcob.nl/forum/: Retrieval command for
> http://www.welshcob.nl/forum/: GET /for
> um/ HTTP/1.0
> User-Agent: htdig/3.1.5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Referer: http://www.welshcob.nl/
> Host: www.welshcob.nl
>
> Header line: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
> Header line: Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:10:38 GMT
> Header line: Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0RC1 mod_perl/1.21
> Header line: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0RC1
> Header line: Location: list.php?f=1
> Header line: Connection: close
> Header line: Content-Type: text/html
> Header line:
> returnStatus = 3
> redirect
> redirect:
>
> Rejected: Not an http or relative link!pick: www.welshcob.nl, #
> servers = 1
> 11:11:1:http://www.welshcob.nl/advertenties/: Retrieval command for
> http://www.welshcob.nl/advertenties/: GET /advertenties/ HTTP/1.0
> User-Agent: htdig/3.1.5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Referer: http://www.welshcob.nl/
> Host: www.welshcob.nl
> [etc etc]
> ----------------------------------------
>
> So the problem here is the 'Rejected Not an http or relative link'
> message. I don't know if this redirection is according to the
> standards, if it isn't please tell me and I will change the script to
> handle it differently. However if this is a valid Location header than
> I would like to know how I can fix this..
>
> HTdig is indexing other pages that have questionmarks in them (i.e.
> www.welshcob.nl/advertenties/
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> --
> Bart van Bragt
> ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already
> sufficiently slippery. -- Ambrose Bierce
>
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