On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:05 PM, "Joseph McAllister" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone yet set their computer to "Speak Aussie"? That might be the > problem.
Bloody oath, cobber, IE's a bit dodgy - just use Firefox and she'll be apples. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > 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). > >> -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- 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.
