Check your http user agent parameter on the request that doesn't give a
content type. if the user agent is "CONTYPE" then the problem is with
IE/WINDOWS. Post here again and i'll dig up the URLS for the information
you need. Microsoft Knowledge Base will explain it, if it is that.
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-----Original Message-----
From: David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: yahalom emet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Mod_dtcl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: content-type problem
>"yahalom emet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'm tring to use the ttml module as an xml Server. when I send xml
>> data to the ttml from tcl using http package I get an xml reply as
>> expected.
>
>Good...
>
>> when I use microsoft XMLHTTPRequest object to connect to the ttml
>> file I see in the apache error_log:
>
>> [Tue Oct 30 09:56:20 2001] [error] [client 192.116.217.98]
>> [libapreq] unknown content-type: `(null)'
>
>It figures that they are doing something stupid.
>
>The relevant code is this:
>
> if (r->method_number == M_POST) {
> const char *ct = ap_table_get(r->headers_in, "Content-type");
> if (ct && strncaseEQ(ct, DEFAULT_ENCTYPE, DEFAULT_ENCTYPE_LENGTH)) {
> result = ApacheRequest_parse_urlencoded(req);
> }
> else if (ct && strncaseEQ(ct, MULTIPART_ENCTYPE,
MULTIPART_ENCTYPE_LENGTH)) {
> result = ApacheRequest_parse_multipart(req);
> }
> else {
> ap_log_rerror(REQ_ERROR,
> "[libapreq] unknown content-type: `%s'", ct);
> result = HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
> }
> }
>
>Basically, it's not being sent as
>
>#define DEFAULT_ENCTYPE "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
>
>or
>
>#define MULTIPART_ENCTYPE "multipart/form-data"
>
>and they are sending it as 'none'. That sucks.
>
>I would be very interested to see an strace (system call) of the
>transaction with your server..
>
>strace -o /tmp/outputfile -s 5000 apache -X
>
>> [Tue Oct 30 09:56:21 2001] [notice] child pid 5749 exit signal
Segmentation fault (11)
>
>This is my fault. I have fixed and committed to CVS.
>
>> I changed in the XMLHTTPRequest object the content-type to different
>> setting but nothing change (only the unknown content-type in the
>> error_log)
>
>> when I run the xmlServer as a cgi script it works fine.
>
>I'm not sure about this... I mean, if it doesn't tell you how it's
>supposed to be parsed, then there isn't a lot to be done.
>
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