[Zope] netscape fastrack server and zope..?

[Michel Pelletier]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> hi zopistas
> 
> here's an odd one. i've never heard of anyone running Zope with PCGI through
> a Netscape server, but somehow a friend of mine set it up (FastTrack 2.0.1)
> and now he has just one little problem.
> 
> renaming an object works when he accesses the zope instance using the port
> ZServer listens on, but he is getting a "Not Found" error when using the
> netscape server port. Looking at his logs he finds that the rename operation
> all of a sudden tries to display the URL <server>/Zope/. (including the
> dot), which results in the "Not Found" Netscape server message.
> 
> his rewrite rule is:
> 
> NameTrans from="/Zope" fn="pfx2dir"
> dir="/stripe1/zope/Zope-2.0.1-src/Zope.cgi"
> 
> which looks a translation of the standard example rule used to set up
> apache.
> 
> here is a little piece of log from the server. notice the "404" in the last
> line:
> 
> <snippers>
> 10.1.1.1 - - [28/Sep/1999:01:57:30 +0000] "GET /Zope/Test/manage_main
> HTTP/1.0" 200 5472 0.835
> 10.1.1.1 - - [28/Sep/1999:01:57:30 +0000] "GET /Zope/p_/ltab HTTP/1.0" 200
> 88 0.570
> 10.1.1.1 - - [28/Sep/1999:01:57:37 +0000] "POST /Zope HTTP/1.0" 401 1494
> 0.529
> 10.1.1.1 - - [28/Sep/1999:01:57:38 +0000] "POST /Zope HTTP/1.0" 200 891
> 0.589
> 10.1.1.1 - - [28/Sep/1999:01:57:43 +0000] "POST /Zope/. HTTP/1.0" 404 247
> 0.550
> </snippers>

This is because Netscape, incorrectly, prevents a request from acessing
the '.' "document" in a folder (which should be the folder itself).

Using '.' is not a violation of the HTTP spec, and every other web
server i've used handles it properly.

You can fix this by changing all ocurances of '.' in Zope's DTML source
with URL1

-Michel

> 
> is anyone here actually using the FastTrack server and could spot the
> problem?
> 
> any help greatly appreciated :)
> 
> jens
> 
> Jens Vagelpohl
> 
> Systems Administrator
> Washtenaw Development Council
> 
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