[rt-users] Lack of trailing slash causing porblems in IE

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:34, Brendan Arnold wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I still have the problem. I have found out some more information
> though. After checking the logs it seems that IE, when submitting the
> form info, actually does not generate a log entry. Also the 'Page
> cannot be found' error appears almost immediately which gives me the
> impression that IE does not even attempt to connect to the server
> before it gives the error. It also seems to happen more often if you
> wait about 60 seconds or more before submitting the form.
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem as it is driving me crazy!

If the URL actually refers to a directory, expecting to hit the
default index page and you omit the trailing /, the server will
send a redirect with the slash to normalize the URL so
relative links on the page will work.  The redirect should
be to the same hostname as the original URL contained, but
if you have UseCanonicalName on in your httpd.conf (and I
think it's the default), it will instead be the name
specified in ServerName.  If you are getting a client DNS
error on the redirects, maybe you have a typo in your
ServerName.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com