It's been a long time since I've seen this type of effect and I never really got to the bottom of it but at the time I came to the conclusion that it was probably a misconfigured "Transparent" proxy at my then ISP that timed out and invented a 404 response.
I solved my problem by using socks forwarding over ssh. Is this an option for your customer? If it is a DNS timeout as Brenda suggests, you could (partially) test for this by adding the site to /etc/hosts or c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ... naturally this will only work if "transparent" proxying isn't in effect. HTH Bruce On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Brenda Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > are you sure it's a "page not found" error? > a time out to your webserver shouldn't cause a 404 > > it may be a DNS timeout. > > On 31 March 2011 14:06, Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > The client is complaining that when he fills in the article and > > submits the form that his browser appears to do nothing for a few > > minutes and then it comes back with a page not found error. > > > > The server that is hosting the website is in Wellington. Everything > > appears to be working ok for me in Auckland. While the client was in > > NZ it worked fine, but now he is in Malaysia and the problem has > > started. > > > > I'm thinking that it's possible that his connection is slow and there > > is some sort of timeout happening somewhere. I assume that browsers > > only wait so long for a response after submitting a form and then give > > an error, is this correct? Is this timeout something that can be > > altered? Or is it possible that Apache has some sort of timeout and > > is closing the connection? > > > -- Bruce Clement Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement Directory: http://www.searchme.co.nz/ "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail Kalashnikov -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
