On 21 Dec 2011, at 19:41, Henry Story wrote:
> Ok I found the issue in the new code I deployed yesterday on foafssl.org. We are
> using in the read-write-web project the Apache HttpClient library 4.1.2 which has
> the class DefaultRequestDirector. This class does in fact follow redirects, but it does
> not follow redirects by default to different hosts! Here is the offending (to some,
> unknown to most) code:
>
> 1045 // Invalidate auth states if redirecting to another host
> 1046 if (!route.getTargetHost().equals(newTarget)) {
> 1047 targetAuthState.invalidate();
> 1048 AuthScheme authScheme = proxyAuthState.getAuthScheme();
> 1049 if (authScheme != null && authScheme.isConnectionBased()) {
> 1050 proxyAuthState.invalidate();
> 1051 }
> 1052 }
Oops silly me! this is just removing the auth state which obviously should be done when you
redirect! Sorry, still searching....
> http://bit.ly/vcZjqb
>
> Btw, it is interesting to note that this library limits redirects to 100 by default
> and checks for loops. It would be interesting to know why they put that in there.
>
>
> Henry
>
>
> On 21 Dec 2011, at 18:20, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/2011 05:19 PM, Henry Story wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21 Dec 2011, at 16:57, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I had the same misunderstanding as Sebastian, creating WebID
>>>> http://champin.net/pa
>>>>
>>>> I now created
>>>> http://champin.net/#pa
>>>> (which I too prefer, btw).
>>>>
>>>> But that one does not work with foafssl.org :-(
>>>
>>> That's because at present it does not have redirection implemented and you resource redirects
>>>
>>> $ curl -i http://champin.net/
>>> HTTP/1.0 302 Found
>>> Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.5.2
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:15:10 GMT
>>> Location: http://liris.cnrs.fr/~pchampin/
>>> Content-type: text/html
>>> Vary: Host
>>
>>
>> I beg to differ: http://champin.net/pa redirected as well, and it worked
>> (and still does)!
>
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Received on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:45:25 UTC