[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] > [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] > [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] > [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] > [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] > [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] > [from a developer. ] > [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ] > > Synopsis: phamtom CGI request > > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback > State-Changed-By: marc > State-Changed-When: Sat Dec 5 10:14:42 PST 1998 > State-Changed-Why: > What do you mean by a "phantom request"? Please describe > exactly what you observe.
Well, the access logs shows a user using our CGI software after being authenticated by htaccess. A while later (we seen anywhere between 45 minutes and 4 hours later) a request identical to one of the originals appears in the log (even the CGI environment seems to be the same). This access crashes our CGI exe. The user is not on the system at the time. Originally we thought that this error was simply a caching or browser issue, but we just managed to replicate the problem in our lab. In this case, the error happened around 45 minutes after the last legitimate access, and the browser in question was not even running! We have not managed to reproduce this problem again. All other reports have come from our beta testers. One more thing, right now it seems like this is only happening on dual processor machines. I would hesitate to say that for sure, since I've only ever seen the bug once, but all of the reports from our beta testers have been on dual processor machines under Windows NT. Our product also runs under UNIX, and we have no reports of a similar bug there. Of course, UNIX handles crashes much more gracefully. I hope this helps. I'm not positive that this is a bug in Apache, but I thought you guys might like to know. If you want, I can send you the actual access log in question. -TTYL, John -- ************************************************ * John Hallett - Software Developer, NT Team * * WebCT Educational Technologies Corporation * ************************************************
