Dear all, I had to setup a Windows 2008r2 box running tomcat 6.0.26 in a virtual machine, in order to see if a project/site from a windows 2003 SP2 and tomcat 5.0 could run on it. During the "upgrade" process everything worked well (after a few tricks), except from one thing (at this point I have to declare that I am no tomcat/Windows expert!):
The site has a place where people can download files from. When it displays the files to be downloaded, it contains a hyperlink containing backslashes in their names. Once a user clicks on those hyperlinks (using firefox), a new tab is created and a blank page is displayed. The address bar shows the link containing the backslashes. If I change them to frontslashes by hand, the file is downloaded. If I use firefox and click on the same links on the same site hosted on the older machine (tomcat 5, etc.), it works just fine. IE on the other hand works fine on both servers. I used a packet sniffer to intercept the packets and my results are as follows (server1 is the old server and server2 is the new): server1: GET /site/archive%5C150%5CdownloadFile%5C3535%5CLec-1.ppt HTTP/1.1 Host: server1:8083 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100526 Firefox/3.5.9 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 Referer: http://server1:8083/site/cms.downloadFile.data.do?method=jsplist&PRMID=1020 Cookie: JSESSIONID=71B2F50E3D20E9CD2812BE4635315C4E; __utma=55546303.157551831.1272378139.1274780984.1274887786.4; __utmz=55546303.1272378139.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none) If-Modified-Since: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:08:43 GMT If-None-Match: W/"2693120-1237280923177" HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Cache-Control: no-cache Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: No-cache Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:20:39 GMT Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 server2: GET /site/archive%5C150%5CdownloadFile%5C3535%5CLec-1.ppt HTTP/1.1 Host: server2:8083 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100526 Firefox/3.5.9 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 Referer: http://server2:8083/site/cms.downloadFile.data.do?method=jsplist&PRMID=1020 Cookie: JSESSIONID=DD8FE273A842A3F922C1ABE9C2803DA8; __utma=55546303.157551831.1272378139.1274780984.1274887786.4; __utmz=55546303.1272378139.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none) HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Length: 0 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:20:38 GMT Connection: close The above transactions are intercepted firefox sessions from the same client to the two servers. One may notice that there are no practical differences other than the two headers regarding caching (If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match). Do be honest, I am not sure why the old server receives caching headers whereas the new one doesn't (the configuration of the old server was performed by other admins). Maybe the answer is hidden in this point...but I don't think so. Does anyone have a clue to what may be happening? I would very much like to set some configuration directive in tomcat that instructs it to treat backslashes in URIs as if they were frontslashes in order to stop this issue, but I cannot find such one. I Hope that somebody may help me in this. Thank you all for your time in advance! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/tomcat-6.0-404-error-only-on-firefox-due-to-backslashes--tp28844040p28844040.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
