John, Thanks for the insight. I went back to the old laptop to see the pug. That machine got it fine. I don't understand the problem with the new laptop. Nice gallery. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:11 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
