Re: Strange tux problem

I have noticed that tux exibits the same behaivour with some broken http
clients if a client provides "\r\n\r\n" instead of the normal "\r\n" in the
end of the GET request ...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Christian Saustrup" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: Strange tux problem


> Hi!
>
> We've been running Tux on our production servers for a while
> now, and so far it's been great. We're running an Apache backend,
> which serves stuff like PHP and SHTML. Tux version is 2.2.0-1.
>
> Today, a pretty ordinary request failed for the first time:
>
> GET /redir.php?program=010-029 HTTP/1.1
> Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
> Accept-Language: da
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
> Host: 010.xxxx.com
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> The connection was closed before we got any response.
> Checking the Apache log, it turns out the request never reached the
> backend. PHP is listed under TUX/redirect in tux.mime.types - infact
> it worked like a charm yesterday :-) The Apache backend is running
> on port 8080, and a direct request is served right.
> I tried Tux again, this time with an accidental linefeed before the
> GET line, and this time it served the request. Puzzeling, eh? :-)
>
> I'm running RH72 with plain vanilla kernel-smp-2.4.9-31.
> Tux version is 2.2.0-1.
>
>
> Cheers,
> HC
>
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> Hans Christian Saustrup
> Chief of Research/Development
> Digital Team ApS - a division of Media-I
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