On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:24:27AM +1000, Brian Walters wrote:
> On Friday, September 09, 2011 8:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Doesn't work with AOL's built-in IE browser (which is some older and off
> > version).
> >
> > Works fine in the latest Firefox.
>
>
>
> I don't know what the problem is with IE. I thought it might have been
> an issue associated with IE8 but I just installed that version on my
> VirtualBox running Win XP and it loaded the gallery fine. Previously
> that XP installation had IE6 installed and that worked as well.
>
> So, why some of you hare having problems with IE is a mystery to which I
> have no answer - other than to use some other browser.
It's a problem with the Apache server configuration on komkon; I get it
with several other pages there, as well as the PUG images.
This is the message displayed in my browser:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-ms-application,
application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.41 Server at www.komkon.org Port 80
What that appears to be saying is that the request sent by my browser
(IE8) includes a header field that is too long. It also displays what
is probably the header record in question, showing the types of image
(and similar formats) that the browser is capable of displaying.
The length of that record looks to be slightly greater than 256 chars.
I'd guess that Apache on komkon is built with a maximum length of 256
(or maybe 260) for the field in question - a rather small limit.
The reason that it only seems to fail for some people (and then only
for those using Internet Explorer) is because the types of file that
a browser says it can accept depends firstly on the browser, and then
on any extensions/add-ons configured into the browser. Presumably a
vanilla IE installation works just fine.
Several of the document types shown above are Microsoft Office docs.
I do have Microsoft Office installed on my system, but perhaps those
types don't show up in the list if Microsoft Office is not installed.
In any case, I believe the root cause is that Apache web server on
komkon is woefully out-of-date. Version 1.3.41 was released in 2008,
and that was just a bugfix release; mainstream Apache released V2
in 2000. In fact V1.3 was end-of-lifed a year and a half ago.
I suspect that the problems would go away if komkon switched to a
more recent version of the Apache web server (2.2, or at least 2.0).
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