On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> According to Fred Stutzman:
> > I wanted to follow up on this, to provide a "solution" to others that 
> > might discover this thread.
> > 
> > As Giles pointed out, the query string length was the key element in 
> > preventing 500 errors.  I have hacked a solution by increasing the length 
> > of the query string.  I no longer get 500 errors.
> > 
> > This is still quite bizarre to me, but I'm very happy that I've found a 
> > way to eliminate the errors.
> 
> But you've still got the problem with page truncation!  You haven't
> fixed the root cause of the problem, just found a way to avoid the
> most drastic truncation (to 0 bytes, causing the 500 error).  Try the
> URL:
> 
> http://iupac.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=www.iupac.org%2Fpublications%2F&exclude=www.iupac.org%2Fgoldbook%2F&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=score&words=75857xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> and then do a View->Page Source, and look at the bottom of the page.
> You'll see the HTML ends abruptly, without completing the footer section
> of your nomatch.html page.

Thanks for pointing this out.  I'll see if I can fix it.  Is this also a 
known issue?

> 
> Have you even tried installing all the Red Hat errata update RPMs?
> 

Right now, I'm less likely to roll out new software to the production 
machines - this is not out of the question, though.

Thanks,
Fred


> 

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