[Webware-discuss] Interesting problem

[Chuck E. <ChuckEsterbrook@StockAlerts.com>]

I just got a WebKit exception report that HTTPRequest.serverURL() 
couldn't find an HTTP_HOST environment variable. In fact, all 11 
HTTP_FOOBAR variables were missing, while all other ones were present.

The only other distinguishing characteristic in the report was that the 
REQUEST_METHOD was HEAD, as opposed to the usual GET or POST.

I then discovered this also happens if I do something like:
  > telnet localhost 80
  GET /webkit/MyApp/

which I wasn't really expecting. I thought it would work and then I 
would try HEAD and watch it fail. Note that if I browse using Mozilla 
0.9, then everything is fine. Also, we get plenty of traffic without 
this error, so the problem is rare.

I'm using Linux, mod_webkit or webkit.cgi, Py 2.1, Webware CVS and 
Apache 1.3.

Anyone else get this?


-Chuck