[rt-users] 2.0.8 POST problem

[Jesse Vincent]

Are you guys using redhat's builds of mod_perl and apache?  


On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:54:11AM +0000, Greg Cope wrote:
> "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
> 
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