Re: Redirect WTF

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Fellow mod_perlers,
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Note that the hosthame is "benedict.local". Now I often just use localhost when using Bricolage, and most of the time that works fine. But there is one JavaScript-triggered redirect button that looks like this:
> 
>     window.location.href = '/admin/profile/dest?id=1024'
> 
> And when I click it, The request goes to mod_perl and I see it come through the access handler and the fixup handler as a request to localhost. But then the PerlReponseHandler never fires! Instead, I see another request come in for the same URL path, but this time for the host name benedict.local. It's almost as if something in Apache or mod_perl is seeing that the request is for a different domain name and helpfully trying to redirect. But it's not helpful (I get a new login screen), and I don't understand why the same thing doesn't happen for other requests.
> 
> Is there something like that in mod_perl2 and I'm just missing it? Or is it more likely that there's some other mysterious bit of code in Bricolage that's doing it and I just haven't found it yet? If the latter, what comes between the PerlFixupHandler and PerlResponseHandler? Because in that first request, the fixup handler fires but the response handler never does.
> 

This smells like a UseCanonicalName On + mod_dir redirect to me.  If the 
directory /admin/profile/dest exists in the document root, there's a 
good chance it is.

HTH,

Adam