On 22:38 09 Mar 2002, Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| What the hell is going on with Netscape? I have the 4.77 RPM version installed
| on RH7.1 and the damn thing is screwing up URLs way too often.
|
| For example:
|
|
|http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/ccmain.superstitial/homepage;dcopt=ist;abr=!webtv;sz=1x1;ord=1657586323?
|
| Comes back as:
|
| Not Found
|
| The requested URL
|/adj/ccmain.superstitial/homepage;dcopt=ist;abr=!webtv;sz=1x1;ord=1657586323 was not
|found on
| this server.
|
| Apache/1.3.19 Server at mrvideo.vidiot.com Port 80
|
|
| While I can't stand those damn ads, the error screws up the display of the
| real page. The same real page displays correctly via opera.
|
| Anyone know what is going on?
Yeah. If it's what I've seen before then there are two bugs here.
The first bug is from the losers at doubleclick. They has transcribed a
URL in the HTML source with embedded whitespace. (It varies - sometimes
embedded spaces, but usually some cockup with a leading or training
newline in the HREF="..." part). This is TOTALLY ILLEGAL.
The other bug is from netscape. Regardless of the crap found in the HTML,
netscape shouldn't be _asking_ for a URL with embedded whitespace. An
HTTP request for a document (or image or whatever) looks like this:
GET URL HTTP/1.1
and some header. The "URL" part may not have whitespace. Even if the
clueless HTML author has put in a space the browser should discard
it, or complain, or percent-encode it per the practice with other
characters. Netscape doesn't do that.
So the upstream server (the proxy or the real target host) is getting
this rubbish in the HTTP request and, not being psychic, failing to
return what you ask for.
By the way, your pain can be lessened with this tool:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that
it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
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