From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 14 07:48:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C20016A4CE for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 07:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779AA43D3F for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 07:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyh@hhbb.co.uk) Received: from [10.0.0.25] (hedgie1.gotadsl.co.uk [82.133.95.107]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185D4250EBE; Fri, 14 May 2004 15:47:45 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <40A4D5C4.4020501@circlesquared.com> References: <3F8352AE-A5AB-11D8-BEB2-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> <40A4D5C4.4020501@circlesquared.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <91406E56-A5B5-11D8-BEB2-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Andy Holyer Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:47:05 +0100 To: Peter Risdon X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache returning multiple (Identical) pages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:48:45 -0000 On 14 May 2004, at 15:20, Peter Risdon wrote: > Andy Holyer wrote: > >> This is a weird one. I'm setting up a PHP page on the web server >> (Apache2, FreeBSD 5.2). When I fetch from a browser, the server >> delivers index.php over and over again, as fast as it can as far as I >> can tell. >> >> However if I telnet to port 80 and type in the get request manually, >> it delivers the page correctly, as far as I can tell. Once, only. >> >> Has anyone seen anything like this before? > > > I think a little bit more info would help. > > Does the apache access log confirm that there are repeated GET > requests for the page? > Sure does. > Is the page actually refreshing, or does it never seem to have > finished loading, without the window actually being re-drawn over and > over again? Infinite loops are a common prob in scripts. > It never gets drawn by the browser. Safari complains of multiple redirect directives, whereas http-access-log reports on multiple sends of index.php > Have you eliminated the possibility of errors in your PHP script by > trying a very trivial script indeed, or one that you know works? > Squirrelmail works perfectly on the same server I've tested it on every web browser I can think of, from Mozillla to lynx. Same behavior. I've just been fiddling with telnet a bit further and I may be getting somewhere. I've not been reading deeply enough into the http log - it is indeed returning a 302 response to the browser. Hmmm... --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241