0.7.5 forms do not work
T-8 guests
guest at qfwfq.lanl.gov
Tue Sep 27 16:12:39 PDT 1994
> BTW, forms work on a large number of servers.
ken case pointed out to me the issue (seems mosaic and lynx
send their POST's with a trailing newline or EOF, omniweb no longer does,
so server was hanging waiting for end of input). since we can't seem to
figure out what the client standard for POST's is supposed to be, i've just
altered server to use the Content-length to avoid similar issues with any
future clients.
another client bug: if i start from home page http://xxx.lanl.gov/
and click on "form interface" (i.e. the form button), then browser blinks
twice and i get two "xxx forms" entries in the History (though server
only receives one request) -- and then i have to hit <- *twice* to get
back to starting point.
there are many problems i notice with the parsing of the automatic redirects:
the problem i noted yesterday (i.e. with http://www.omnigroup.com
just going to starting page, rather than autoredirecting to same url
with trailing slash, as specified by server) is reproducible but seems not
to appy to url's with an additional internal slash, i.e. if i go to
http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex , it does auto redirect to
http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex/ (though it leaves the errant url in the
lower highlighted box for some reason),
*BUT* it then does not parse relative url's to points within that page
correctly: i.e. if i hit the first relative url (specified as "#dvi" on
the page itself), omniweb foolishly reloads the entire page from the server
to go to the internal point as http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex/#dvi.
(this does not happen if i specified the original url with the trailing slash,
so it is the autoredirects that are still confusing it...)
<a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/pg.html">pg</a>
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