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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com> on 1997/05/21 17:09:26 UTC
usertrack problems

not acked.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:04:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Russell Van Tassell <ru...@marketsmart.com>
To: apache-bugs@apache.org
Subject: v1.2b7 cookies


Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 17:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Russell Van Tassell <russell>
Message-Id: <19...@kimba.marketsmart.com>
To: apache_bugs@apache.org
Subject: v1.2b7 cookies


It seems as though there is a strange condition in-which the
server will not send a cookie to the browser... only to send
it two or three requests later.

I do not have any caching set...
I have NetScape set to prompt me for every cookie... (so I
   can see them when they come across)


The way I did this the first time:

1. Fresh compile -> cookies turned off by default

2. Retrieved a couple of pages

3. Turned cookies on in httpd.conf and kill hup'd the server...

     CookieExpires "1 year"
     CookieTracking on
     CustomLog logs/clickstream "%{cookie}i %r %t"

4. Started retrieving pages from the document root while watching
   the clickstream log... (please note that these are all from the
   same browser)

     - GET / HTTP/1.0 [20/May/1997:17:26:10 -0700]
     - GET /manual/index.html HTTP/1.0 [20/May/1997:17:28:26 -0700]
     - GET /manual/misc/known_bugs.html HTTP/1.0 [20/May/1997:17:30:53 -0700]
     Apache=foobar1477864174652947 GET /manual/install.html HTTP/1.0 [20/May/1997:17:32:40 -0700]
     Apache=foobar1477864174652947 GET /manual/mod/directives.html HTTP/1.0 [20/May/1997:17:33:22 -0700]



Each request (in the access log) was verified as a complete "GET"
rather than a "HEAD" or anything else... so it appears as though
the server may not be sending a cookie out with every new request,
as it should be doing.


 SCENARIO 2:
=============
1. Two machines on same private network, sharing a single non-caching
   bastion host / proxy
2. System 1 performs a GET on a page and receives a cookie
3. System 2 performs a GET on same page as above one second later
   and does not receive a cookie (nor does it have any stored to
   send)



Russell