durusmail: quixote-users: Re: CGIHTTPServer
CGIHTTPServer
2003-05-22
2003-05-22
Re: CGIHTTPServer
2003-05-22
2003-05-22
2003-05-22
2003-05-22
Re: CGIHTTPServer
2003-05-22
2003-05-23
Re: CGIHTTPServer
Mark Bucciarelli
2003-05-22
On Thursday 22 May 2003 12:32 pm, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 May 2003 11:05 am, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> >>Perhaps there was an old issue, but I'm using Quixote/Medusa on
> >>Windows and am having no problems whatsoever.
> >
> > This is the post that made me nervous about medusa ...
> >
> > "Truncated page from Medusa-based Quixote HTTP server"
> >     ... when fetching the /status page from a Medusa HTTP server,
> > I'm finding that  some browsers get a truncated page or none at
> > all and the browser keeps waiting for the response to complete.
> > 
>
> Hmmm... perhaps memory fails me, but I don't recall having this
> problem since I started using Quixote/Medusa back in January. As
> you noted, there have been a few bugs in quixote.server.medusa_http
> identified and fixed since the time of the "truncation" report.
> Perhaps the issue was a side effect of one of these?

Looks like it was browser specific, too.  IE 5.5 and Opera 6.05.
Should be easy enough to test with IE 5.5 (i will be very surprised
if any of my users will be using Opera ... :))

> All I can say is that I've been using Quixote/Medusa regularly on
> Win2K and WinXP machines, and have had no problems or issues that
> were not solved by the aforementioned bugfixes.
>
> And, since I'm using Quixote/Medusa in a long-term, critical
> project, you'll have at least one other developer out there who
> will be eager to help fix any emerging problems related to the Q/M
> combination!

That is indeed comforting!

> > And one from you last march--I guess I should apply your patch if
> > I choose Medusa?
>
> No need, that patch has already been merged into the source tree.
> (It was a patch to Quixote's Medusa handler, not to Medusa itself.)

So, I downloaded Quixote-0.6 archive--it the patch in that release?
Ah, I can check pretty easily myself.  Never mind.

Do you use 0.6 or what is in CVS?

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