[rt-users] 2.0.8 POST problem

[Jeremy M. Smith]

Nope. I'm using my own build of both. The most suspect thing in my setup
is that I'm building mod_perl as a DSO in order to preserve some other
complex apache mods.

Jeremy.


>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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