Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:08:57AM +0100, Vic wrote: > > >I think we're talking at cross purposes, then. I've just tried > > Google's server, and it definitely needs two CR/LFs at the end of the > > process: one to terminate the final header line, and another to > > terminate the header block.

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Vic
>I think we're talking at cross purposes, then. I've just tried > Google's server, and it definitely needs two CR/LFs at the end of the > process: one to terminate the final header line, and another to > terminate the header block. Here's my transcript :- [...@bombardier ~]$ telnet google.co

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:41:51PM +0100, Vic wrote: > > >> My Apache servers do not behave in that way... > > > >I bet they do. > > I bet they don't. None of my servers require the second CRLF. Nor does > Google's. Nor does lug.org.uk's. Try a few... I think we're talking at cross purpos

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Vic
>> My Apache servers do not behave in that way... > >I bet they do. I bet they don't. None of my servers require the second CRLF. Nor does Google's. Nor does lug.org.uk's. Try a few... >> Either something very odd is going on with this hardware, or $ISP is >> lying >> to me about which subsc

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Vic and Hugo, On 05/07/10 23:20, Hugo Mills wrote: > Either one of those is plausible, although the latter is more > likely, IMO I agree with this as the more plausible one of the two. If you have somebody on-site that can connect through the router you have in mind, please ask them t

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:48:37PM +0100, Vic wrote: > > >> Yes - and trying "GET /" or similar gets a 404 response (although I > >> always > >> have to hit return twice). > > > >Yup, that's part of the HTTP protocol. The empty line indicates the > > end of the headers. > > My Apache servers

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Vic
>> Yes - and trying "GET /" or similar gets a 404 response (although I >> always >> have to hit return twice). > >Yup, that's part of the HTTP protocol. The empty line indicates the > end of the headers. My Apache servers do not behave in that way... >> But it's a web-ish server running on p

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:22:38PM +0100, Vic wrote: > > > The reply from the line starting 501 looks like the reply one would > > expect from a web server when throwing something un-http at it. > > Yes - and trying "GET /" or similar gets a 404 response (although I always > have to hit return tw

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Vic
> It's not difficult to configure apache or for that matter most other web > servers to run on any non-used port. Yes I know - but I administer the server there, and it isn't running FC6, and it isn't running apache on . Hence the appeal as to whether or not anyone knows what is going on...

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Jim Kissel
It's not difficult to configure apache or for that matter most other web servers to run on any non-used port. The default for httpd is to run on port 80, or 443 for shttp requests. "non-standard" ports use to be quite common in the early days of the web. It would require some manual configur

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:09:38PM +0100, Vic wrote: > > Hi All. > > This might be OT for the list, but I know there are some decent network > admins reading it... > > A customer of mine has a static IP address with a server on the back of > it, running a few odds and ends. Nothing special - mai

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Vic
> The reply from the line starting 501 looks like the reply one would > expect from a web server when throwing something un-http at it. Yes - and trying "GET /" or similar gets a 404 response (although I always have to hit return twice). But it's a web-ish server running on port , and claimi

Re: [Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Jim Kissel
The reply from the line starting 501 looks like the reply one would expect from a web server when throwing something un-http at it. Vic wrote: > Hi All. > > This might be OT for the list, but I know there are some decent network > admins reading it... > > A customer of mine has a static IP addr

[Hampshire] [OT?] This is odd...

2010-07-05 Thread Vic
Hi All. This might be OT for the list, but I know there are some decent network admins reading it... A customer of mine has a static IP address with a server on the back of it, running a few odds and ends. Nothing special - mail, web, news, ftp. He can't currently talk to his server - and nor c

Re: [Hampshire] suggest a laptop

2010-07-05 Thread James Ashburner
On 04/07/2010 10:16, pavithran wrote: > I am looking for a light weight laptop which is powerfull and also is > supported in GNU/linux ( hopes for all free drivers) > > It would be nice if the laptop could run compiz + openoffice+ firefox( > 10 tabs +gmail) without any delays . > > Regards, > Pavit