Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 03:47:17 +0100
Message-Id: <9410110244.AA00952@bay.lcs.mit.edu>
From: frystyk@bay.lcs.mit.edu (Henrik Frystyk)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www0.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: Problem with POST with WWW clients using double proxies
Hi
The problem is that you are using the prerelease version. You should
use the 3.0 release as there is a bug in the prerelease when using
POST which shows up as you describe below.
-- cheers --
Henrik Frystyk
frystyk@dxcern.cern.ch
+ 41 22 767 8265
World-Wide Web Project,
CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23,
Switzerland
> We are having problem getting Mosaic and Lynx clients to use fill in forms when
> connected via two proxies. The first proxy is used for caching, while the
> second proxy is directly connected to the Internet. The current setup is:
>
>
> Mosaic ---> caching proxy ---> firewall proxy ---> Internet
>
> The caching server is CERN 3.0 running on HP-UX 9.01.
> The firewall server is CERN 3.0 pre6 running on SunOS ???.
>
> The problem is that any data entered into a fill-in form and then submitted
> via POST to the proxy httpd either gets lost, or is never sent to the
> destination server. The server that the POST is directed to always returns
> an error indicating that no data was filled in on the form.