[rt-users] 2.0.8 POST problem

[Greg Cope]

"Jeremy M. Smith" wrote:
> 
> Hello--
> 
> I've been happily using RT1 for almost three years. Today, I decided to
> make the jump to RT2. The installation went well, and everything from my
> RT1 instance imported perfectly. But there is some problem with any RT2
> form that uses the POST method instead of GET. With the main login screen,
> for instance, if I try to use the username and password form elements, I
> just get dumped back to the same screen. However, if I tag on
> ?user=xxxx&pass=yyyy to the base RT2 URL, I get in just fine. It seems
> that most of the other forms use GET, so the system is functional, but
> several of the administrative forms use POST.
> 
> I have checked the list archives. There have been a few threads talking
> about this problem, but no solutions aside from changing all of the POSTs
> in the code over to GETs, which seems clunky.
> 
> If I look in my webserver logs, it looks like the browser is actually
> sending two separate requests, almost as if the HTTP headers were getting
> messed up:
> 
> 169.237.xxx.yyy - - [18/Oct/2001:13:39:01 -0700] "POST /rt2/ HTTP/1.1" 200
> 2071
> 169.237.xxx.yyy - - [18/Oct/2001:13:39:01 -0700] "user=test&pass=testGET
> /rt2/NoAuth/webrt.css HTTP/1.1" 200 1484
> 
> This problem is consistent across several different browsers, including
> Mozilla, IE 5.5, and Netscape 4.7.
> 
> I'm using RT 2.0.8, Apache 1.3.19, Perl 5.6.1, mod_perl 1.26 and fresh
> builds of all the required Perl modules (compiled from CPAN today) all on
> a RedHat 7.0 system.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this behaviour (and, hopefully, a solution)?
> 

Thats two of us that have the same problem - but the only difference is
that I am using Apache 1.3.20, and RedHat 7.1.

The only kludge I have is to change the posts to gets.

Any else any ideas ?

Greg