X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/0b784b5593ea9db6664d0ceb5001939f7597f044..75acf768516fd15d893ea3eb6551003693f2dc1a:/doc/bugs/CGI_problem_with_some_webservers.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/CGI_problem_with_some_webservers.mdwn b/doc/bugs/CGI_problem_with_some_webservers.mdwn index fa1e8f651..a40a454c1 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/CGI_problem_with_some_webservers.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/CGI_problem_with_some_webservers.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ -The edit function has a problem when running with [[debpkg thttpd]] -or [[debpkg mini-httpd]]: for some reason the headers ikiwiki -outputs are transmitted as the page content. +The "ikwiki.cgi?page=index&do=edit" function has a problem +when running with [[!debpkg thttpd]] or [[!debpkg mini-httpd]]: +for some reason the headers ikiwiki outputs are transmitted +as the page content. Surprisingly, the "do=prefs" function +works as expected. Here is what it looks like in iceweasel: @@ -13,6 +15,55 @@ Here is what it looks like in iceweasel: (...) -Ikiwiki runs fine with [[debpkg boa]]. +Ikiwiki runs fine with [[!debpkg boa]]. ---[[JeremieKoenig]] \ No newline at end of file +--[[JeremieKoenig]] + +It doesn't work for signin either. +What is the reason for these "header => 1" in FormBuilder initialisations? +Why do they appear two times with conflicting values in the very same hashes? + +--[[JeremieKoenig]] + +> Clearly those duplicate header settings are a mistake. But in all cases, the +> `header => 0` came second, so it _should_ override the other value and +> can't be causing this problem. (cgi_signin only sets it to 0, too). +> +> What version of formbuilder are you using? If you run ikiwiki.cgi at the +> command line, do you actually see duplicate headers? I don't: + + joey@kodama:~/html>REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING="page=index&do=edit" ./ikiwiki.cgi + Set-Cookie: ikiwiki_session_joey=41a847ac9c31574c1e8f5c6081c74d12; path=/ + Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:04:06 GMT + Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 + + Do thttpd and mini-httpd perhaps not realize that Set-Cookis is the start of +> the headers? --[[Joey]] + +>> Thanks for your help: I think I found the problem! +>> Ikiwiki outputs (in my case) the following +>> error message on stderr, followed by an empty line: + + /srv/ikiwiki/wc/index.mdwn: (Not a versioned resource) + +>> Probably thttpd and mini-httpd read stderr as well as stdout, while apache +>> and boa don't. When using a shell-script wrapper as the CGI, +>> which redirects ikiwiki's error output to /dev/null, it works better. + +>> The edit still fails to commit, because in my wiki, index.mdwn is +>> pulled from the base wiki and somehow ikiwiki wants to change it +>> rather that create it. + +>> --[[JeremieKoenig]] + +>>> If thttpd and mini-httpd interpret CGI's stderr as stdout, then +>>> they're not properly following the CGI spec, and will break with tons +>>> of cgi scripts besides ikiwiki. And of course there are many many cases +>>> where ikiwiki might output to stderr, and that's the right thing to do. +>>> So I don't see any way to address this in ikiwiki. --[[Joey]] + +>>>> (reported as [[!debbug 437927]] and [[!debbug 437932]]) --[[JeremieKoenig]] + +Marking [[done]] since it's not really an ikiwiki bug. --[[Joey]]