Has anyone yet set their computer to "Speak Aussie"? That might be the problem.
On Sep 13, 2011, at 04:08 , Bob Sullivan wrote: > 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. Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Kevan Olesen -- 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.
