[Mailman-Users] "invalid uri"
Bek Oberin
gossamer at tertius.net.au
Sun Dec 19 22:25:08 CET 1999
Paul Tomblin wrote:
> Quoting Bek Oberin (gossamer at tertius.net.au):
>> Paul Tomblin wrote:
>>> Quoting Bek Oberin (gossamer at tertius.net.au):
>>>> Bad Request
>>>> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
>>>> Invalid URI in request GET mailman/admindb/asrmel HTTP/1.0
[...]
> That's bizarre. I don't see how going to any normal URL could cause
> a "GET" command without a leading slash to be sent to the httpd.
> Unless you have a URL like "http:mailman/admindb/asrmel" somewhere
> on your site and that's what you're clicking to get there. Because
> if you were to type the URL
> http://xcski.com/mailman/admindb/upstateav, that should cause your
> browser to say "hmmm, ok, that's a url on xcski.com, so I'll connect
> to port 80 on xcski.com, and issue the command ``GET
> /mailman/admindb/upstateav HTTP/1.0''".
Okay, I figured it out. It seems to be a weird bug that
happens in Lynx (at least) when you have http_proxy set to
the null string. If I unset the variables (like I should
have done in the first place) then it starts to work again
I remain, as always, baffled.
bekj
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