Hi mailman-users@python.org Summary:

• Is below normal for mailman-2.1.39 ?
• Or do I have a corrupted script ?
• Is better error handling possible ?

If a user who is not subscribed to a list tries to unsubscribe (perhaps he's not sure if he has yet unsubed all in various changes),

Example: http://mailman.berklix.org/mailman/listinfo/test scroll to end "To unsubscribe" Type dummy@domain.nowhere Click unsubscribe

Receive: http://mailman.berklix.org/mailman/options/test Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration
and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@berklix.org
to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the
actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the
server error log.

/var/log/httpd-error.log: [cgi:error] [pid 7888] [client browser_home_ip_number:57904] End of script output before headers: options, referer: http://mailman.berklix.org/mailman/listinfo/test

It would be nicer to see: "Your email address is not subscribed" that would save time for user, list & httpd owners.

Is the nasty error message to hinder malicious flood probers trying variant addresses eg @target.com to see who may be subscribed [then probed elsewhere] ? Adding a few seconds 'man 3 sleep' would hinder robots.

Cheers,

Julian Stacey http://berklix.eu/jhs/mail/ Can't reply to Gmail & Yahoo. Arm Ukraine. Contraception & plain text email to reduce global warming.