Hello,

when I read that WWWOFFLE 2.7 is now available, I was glad to finally
get rid of the Purge-bug that had required regular manual intervention.

But unfortunately, it seems another -at least for me much worse- bug has
crept in. The symptom I first noticed were frequent "Document contains no
data"-popups in Netscape and lots of "broken picture" images. I played
around with the options in wwwoffle.conf [1], but to no avail. I finally
found what I believe to be the problem when I tried talking to the proxy
with Telnet while it was online:

===
GET http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/index.html HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 304 WWWOFFLE Not Modified
Server: WWWOFFLE/2.7
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:00:55 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Proxy-Connection: close
===

Now, I don't claim to know a lot about http, but I don't think that a 304
should be a valid reply to a request without an "If-modified-since" header,
or is it?

I'm not sure what technical details are relevant here, the OS is Linux
2.0.36, libc5, the gcc is an ancient 2.7.2.1 and WWWOFFLE was compiled
with zlib and without IPv6 [2].
Oh, and the requested page did exist in the WWWOFFLE cache, of course.


[1] BTW, IMVHO the new web pages for editing that are unusable. It takes
    far too many clicks to get to and change the setting I want. I found
    the old page far easier to use.

[2] I had to comment out some lines related to IPv6 in the configure
    script, because otherwise it complained that I had specified IPv6-
    support but getaddr<orsomething>() is not supported, even when I
    explicitly used --without-ipv6. Now, did I break or fix something
    by doing that?

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