Re: Strange behavior from Apache with DirectAction String greater than 504 characters

David Teran wrote:
> 
> On 08.09.2005, at 12:16, Andreas Hjortsberg wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> As of Apples new strategy to only support there own plattform for  
>> deployment of WO53,  we decided to try move from Windows to OSX.
> 
> 
> Cool, Apple will be glad that this strategy worked for at least on  
> customer (sorry, could not resist) ;-)
> 
Your Welcome.

>> So we  lended an XServe from a local retailer but we have had some  
>> problems when it comes to long Direct Action strings.
>>
>> We did an standard installation of OSX server, Tiger. WO 5.2.4  and  
>> Apache 1.3 was already installed, so the only thing we did was to  add 
>> our application and framworks,  added the needed  information  to the 
>> monitor and changed som rights in our files. So far  everything is 
>> just fine.
>>
>> We can acces our application on just fine on http://192.168.10.2/ 
>> cgi-bin/WebObjects/XOdus.woa
>> Now to the strange part. We have an external pure java client that  
>> books transaction by creating direkt actions strings and  if on of  
>> those is longer than 504 character the webserver won't respond. No  
>> access attempts will be found in /var/log/httpd/access_log. If I  take 
>> that generated string and paste it into my browser and then  press 
>> enter I get  "Page can not be found" . But if I first access  the 
>> application on   http://192.168.10.2/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ XOdus.woa and 
>> then paste  in the URL and press enter the  application will respond 
>> correctly and the access_log will have a  record of my attempt. And 
>> the transaction will be created in our  application.
>>
>> I'm quite confused. Is there some security settings that I'm not  
>> aware about? Can I increase the logging in Apache?
>> How can I check that everyting is configured correctly between the  
>> adapter and Apache?
>>
>> This works just fine with IIS on Windows Server so I do hope it's  my 
>> lack of knowledge in the subject.
>>
>> I would realy keep the lended XServe but will have some problem to  
>> convince my Manager to do so if we can't run our application on it.
>>
>> As Always any ideas is welcome
>>
> 
> Strange things. But please do the following:
> 
> make sure your urls are not longer than 1024 characters 'cause this  
> leads to problems. I would suggest to use POST instead of GET which  has 
> not this limitation. No real help, just a work around.

Your workaround is working just fine

Thank you!

/Andreas

> 
> regards, David
> 
>> Regards
>> /Andreas
>>
>>
>> This one will go* *without any problems at all.
>>
>> http://192.168.10.2/cgi-bin/WebObjects/XOdus.woa/wa/createReceipt? 
>> &created=20050908094306&creatorCashDesk=5001&creatorStation=IT9&creato 
>> rEmployee=sad&fees=20.0&commissions=0.0&balanceReturned=-0.09&rows=2&1 
>> _receiveContainer=5001&1_chargeContainer=892&1_item=5&1_measuredQuanti 
>> ty=11.0&1_transactionType=B&1_transactionRate=7.5377&1_selectedRateDef 
>> inition=3&2_receiveContainer=5001&2_chargeContainer=892&2_item=3&2_mea 
>> suredQuantity=-63.0&2_transactionType=P&2_transactionRate=1.0&receiptC 
>> omment=12345678+
>>
>>
>> This wont
>>
>> http://192.168.10.2/cgi-bin/WebObjects/XOdus.woa/wa/createReceipt? 
>> &created=20050908094343&creatorCashDesk=5001&creatorStation=IT9&creato 
>> rEmployee=sad&fees=20.0&commissions=0.0&balanceReturned=-0.09&rows=2&1 
>> _receiveContainer=5001&1_chargeContainer=892&1_item=5&1_measuredQuanti 
>> ty=11.0&1_transactionType=B&1_transactionRate=7.5377&1_selectedRateDef 
>> inition=3&2_receiveContainer=5001&2_chargeContainer=892&2_item=3&2_mea 
>> suredQuantity=-63.0&2_transactionType=P&2_transactionRate=1.0&receiptC 
>> omment=123456789+
>>
>>
>>
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