[Mailman-Users] User management bug?

[Peter Bowyer]

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott <scott at chronis.pobox.com>
To: Farul Ghazali <farul at bigfoot.com>
Cc: mailman-users at python.org <mailman-users at python.org>
Date: 09 November 1998 22:54
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] User management bug?


>On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 03:39:59PM -0500, Farul Ghazali wrote:
>| >what web server/python version are you using?
>|
>| I'm using Apache 1.3.0 with Python 1.5.1
>|
>| >when you click on a chunk, does it append "?chunk=2" or something like
>| >that to the url?
>|
>| Yes it does (as it always did) but it reloads only the first page. I've
>| tried this on multiple versions of Netscape 4 on my Mac as well as on the
>| Solaris box that runs the mailing list.
>|
>| I don't remember when this actually happened, but if I were to guess I
>| would say that it was after I upgraded from 1.0b4 to 1.0b6.
>|
>| Much thanks.
>|
>| .farul
>
>
>This is strange.  If you enter the full url in the browser (with the
>?chunk= appended), then go to it, it works, but if you click on the
>url, the extra query string doesn't get passed in for some reason.
>
>I've not seen this behavior before.  Does anyone know what might be
>stripping the query string from a link in apache 1.3.0? I know that
>older apache's didn't pass query strings when Redirect'ing from one
>location to another, but it appears that this now works in apache.
>
>Is there anything that may to point to this in the web server's
>configuration?
>


Have you checked the webserver logs to make sure the correct URL is being
requested? In entirely different circumstances, I've seen a browser cache
cause simliar problems to this - it wouldn't properly reload a CGI page.

Peter