Fw: Problems with postform against Netscape FastTrack

Maybe someone on the list can help Antonio?

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
mailto:frystyk@microsoft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Merighi" <merighi@mail.eng.it>
To: <frystyk@w3.org>; <cbrooks@osf.org>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 08:02
Subject: Problems with postform against Netscape FastTrack


> Hello, my name is Antonio Merighi and I use libwww to make requests
> inside my web
> applications to HTTP servers.
> Right now I have had no problems because I made requests to  Apache or
> Lotus Domino server.
> But recently, when I start to make requests to a Netscape FastTrack
> server a serious problem
> come out: when I use postform to make a request, I have this results:
> 1. with HTTP 1.1 the client gets the response data, but waits the server
> closing the connection
> (the server timout expires, about 30 secs) before ending the processing
> of the request.
> 2. with HTTP 1.0 the client blocks itself on the "receive" in the
> "HTEvtLst.c" and never get up.
> The libwww and postform are compiled on an AIX 4.3 and the Netscape
> FastTrack runs on a
> NT 4.0.
>
> In HTTP 1.1 it seems to be a bad format of response: the postform in
> debug mode gives back this
> message:
>
> "MIME Parser. BAD - there seems to be a body but no length. This must be
> an HTTP/1.0 server pretending that i
> t is HTTP/1.1".
>
> In fact, in the FastTrack response there isn't the lengh of the body as
> first elements of the body like
> in apache responses.
> Have you experienced this problem right now? Can you help me?
> Thanks for your attention.
> Bye
> Antonio
>
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Received on Monday, 17 July 2000 11:17:00 UTC