Hello, We have recently upgraded from apache 1.3.35 to 2.2.0. 2.2.0 is a great improvement and long overdue for us. We have also switched from a shared host provider to our own hosted server at the same time. There is one sticky point that I am trying to figure out if we can work around it.
We have a client application that is deployed to many (several hundred) users across the internet. This client application communicates with our apache server occasionally to see if there are new versions of the client to download. The client performs a POST of the current version to the server and the server responds back with a yes/no and an optional download URI. The POST is done with a content type of "text". It works with our installation of 1.3.35. It does not work with our installation of 2.2.0. The error response is "501 Method Not Implemented". If I update the client to use a content type of "text/xml" then it works great with our installation of 2.2.0. I don't have full access to the 1.3.35 apache installation to look at it and browse its configuration. We POST to a php page, but I get the same behavior posting to cgi or html. Below is an example from our 2.2.0 installation. The first one works and the second one doesn't...the only difference is the content type. It would be nice if we could simply update the client, but we don't control when our client applications get upgraded (1. we don't force updates and 2. the update server is broken, nuts!). Downgrading to our old server is also a tough pill to swallow. Does anyone have any pointers on how I might go about configuring our 2.2.0 installation to get past this problem? Thanks for the help, Jake http://example.com/ad.php POST /ad.php HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 48 Cookie: PHPSESSID=v08hp3b83sku8m0j1tja52k626 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache 7a7dcf88f1e2d51573de368c379a833bbd4d32f70a0afc9f HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:26:37 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6 Content-Length: 848 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://example.com/ad.php POST /ad.php HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: text; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 48 Cookie: PHPSESSID=v08hp3b83sku8m0j1tja52k626 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache 7a7dcf88f1e2d51573de368c379a833bbd4d32f70a0afc9f HTTP/1.x 501 Method Not Implemented Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:27:06 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora) Allow: TRACE Content-Length: 290 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
