[ic] Crazy Cross Compatibility Problems

[Steve & Patti Getzinger]

cfm@maine.com wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 07:22:55PM -0500, Mike Heins wrote:
>
> > > SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
> > >
> ...
> > A good way to test this is to try accessing a regular page (not Interchange)
> > repeatedly, i.e. one of the image files. If there are errors on those,
> > then it has nothing at all to do with anything except problems between
> > the web server and the browser. Usually Microsoft's buggy SSL implementation
> > is at fault.
> >
> > You might put this on the basket page:
> >
> >       If you have trouble ordering,
> >       <A HREF="https://www.myserver.com/regular_page.html">
> >       try this link
> >       </A> repeatedly.  If errors occur, when traveling
> >       this link and clicking Refresh/Reload several times,
> >       then you need to update your web browser.
> >
> > The regular_page.html should be at least 16K bytes in size to give
> > it a chance to fail.
>
> I'm not sure if there is one or more issues here.  Certainly the
> IE keepalive is a problem.  We do a **lot** of dynamic server side
> includes in *.html pages.  In our experience, *.cgi pages this is
> not a problem.  But a dynamic include in a *.html page does seem
> to be a problem.  Sending CGI headers and PRAGMAs of whatever
> type does not work, IE just ignores them.
>
> Ultimately we patched our server not to allow keepalive from IE.
> Particularly on larger pages with larger includes this is a problem.
> For us, at least, the keepalive has been a much bigger issue than
> any SSL problems.
>
> cfm
>
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>
> Christopher F. Miller, Publisher                             cfm@maine.com
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Christopher,
  While your assessment is most likely accurate, on a standard Apache install the
nokeepalive line is there but is commented out in the SSL portion of the conf
file. His complaints were associated with checkout which is SSL (or at least
should be). I am running the most current version of Apache and the SSL configs
are all in the same conf file which in the past were seperate files. While this
is not a Interchange issue per say I kinda feel it is since there is so much each
of us should be familiar with other than Interchange (perl, web servers, HTML,
SQL, ...) So maybe not an Interchange problem but the Interchaneg list should be
a good place to find a solution :)

Steve