Re: Netscape 4.04 tries to GET https URL??

Mike,

        This seems like an old and ugly Netscape bug. It was researched
in-depth by Henrik some time ago. Use the list archives to find those old
messages.

Alex.

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Mike Batchelor wrote:

> Please see if you can reproduce this problem, or tell me if it's something
> already well-known.
>
> Go visit http://www.c2.net/download/product/sh2/.%a0 Check some appropriate
> radio buttons on the fill-in form, then click the "NEXT" button near the
> bottom.  If you are running Netscape 4.x, you should get an error page from
> your squid cache claiming it received an invalid request method.  But if you
> back up, and click the "NEXT" button again, you do not get an error, but are
> taken to the next page in the eval signup procedure.
>
> This does not happen with IE4 or IE5.  They go straight to the next page in
> the signup procedure without generating an error from squid.
>
> After determining that this problem is reproducible, I turned on debugging
> in squid, and found that the "NEXT" button submits the form data via GET,
> and the response is a redirect to the https server at c2.net for the next
> page in the sequence.  Netscape, upon encountering this redirect, issues a
> GET instead of CONNECT to the https server!  This is certainly invalid! 
> Squid is right, Netscape was wrong.  But mysteriously, backing up and trying
> again succeeds.  Strange.
>
> Can anyone reproduce this, and is this a known bug in Netscape, that it
> tries to GET from a https server when responding to a redirect?  Somehow it
> figures out the right thing to do when going back and forth through the
> history, though...
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>
>
Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 21:54:14 MDT