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Posted to apache-bugdb@apache.org by Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com> on 1997/08/20 02:10:01 UTC

Re: config/1019: possible followup to PR#145 / POST method to cgi routine sometimes not allowed (fwd)

The following reply was made to PR config/1019; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: Apache bugs database <ap...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: config/1019: possible followup to PR#145 / POST method to cgi routine sometimes not allowed (fwd)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:02:21 -0600 (MDT)

 
 
 
 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:40:54 -0500 (CDT)
 From: Dean Karres <ka...@southwind.net>
 To: Marc Slemko <ma...@hyperreal.org>
 Subject: Re: config/1019: possible followup to PR#145 / POST method to cgi routine sometimes not allowed
 
 Author: Marc Slemko
 > 
 > Synopsis: possible followup to PR#145 / POST method to cgi routine sometimes not allowed
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: marc
 > State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 19 16:30:13 PDT 1997
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Can you narrow down the exact names and versions
 > of browsers that are having trouble?
 > 
 > What does your log show for the requests that are
 > denied?
 
 Here is a recent succes and failure from the access-log.  Nothing shows
 in the error-log:
 
 ict1.southwind.net - - [19/Aug/1997:17:17:56 -0500] "POST /southwind/cgi-bin/checkusage HTTP/1.0" 200 524
 
 jade.southwind.net - - [19/Aug/1997:17:18:35 -0500] "POST /southwind/cgi-bin/checkusage HTTP/1.0" 405 195
 
 
 > What happens if you try telnetting to port 80 and
 > doing a:
 > 
 >     POST /southwind/cgi-bin/checkusage HTTP/1.0
 >     Host: www.southwind.net
 
 Yea!!!  This works is every case that failed before.
 
 Is "Host:" the id of the machine I am trying to reach or the id of the
 machine I am coming from? if I change the value of "Host:" to be that of
 the machine that I am coming from then it fails as before, ex: (from the
 machine topaz):
 
     $ telnet 206.53.102.28 80
     Trying 206.53.102.28...
     Connected to 206.53.102.28.
     Escape character is '^]'.
     POST /southwind/cgi-bin/checkusage HTTP/1.0
     Host: topaz.southwind.net
 
     HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
     Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 23:34:45 GMT
     Server: Apache/1.2.1
     Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE
     Connection: close
     Content-Type: text/html
 
     <HTML><HEAD>
     <TITLE>405 Method Not Allowed</TITLE>
     </HEAD><BODY>
     <H1>Method Not Allowed</H1>
     The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /southwind/cgi-bin/checkusage.<P>
     </BODY></HTML>
     Connection closed by foreign host.
 
 
 Assuming that the "Host:" pragma is necessary, how can I force it?
 
 
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 Dean Karres               | http://www2.southwind.net/~karres
      karres@southwind.net |
 Southwind Internet Access | Programmer / Systems Administrator
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