Re: [webmin-l] Webmin via IE without proxies

[Matthew J. <mjo...@cs...>]

Jamie-
Thanks again for responding to quick to my problems.  I'm just curious though, 
what changes were made to accomodate IE.  I've been looking through miniserv.pl 
and I cannot find anything that I'd think would change the behavior.  


Quoting Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:

> There is a bug in webmin 1.100 that causes this exact problem if the server
> is using Perl 5.8 and the client is IE. However, I have just released
> version
> 1.110 that should fix it - give it a try and tell us if it helps ..
> 
> The problem may be something totally different in your case, as you are
> running
> Webmin on a system that it hasn't been really tested on (Cygwin on NT).
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> Matthew Johnson <mjo...@cs...> wrote ..
> > Hi all, I posted something about this on the forum but no one is
> responding,
> > so 
> > I'd thought I'd try the email list.
> > 
> > The interesting thing is that if I use netscape, and go through localhost,
> > everything is fine.  I'm wondering if this could be something wrong with
> > the 
> > way webmin behaves with Internet Explorer or if you guys think it a
> straight
> > IE 
> > problem.  BTW: I am not using SSL or anything at this point.  Problem is
> > below.
> > 
> > Sorry in advance if it is rude to cross post between forum and mail list.
> > 
> > Here is the post from the msg board:
> > Server Setup:Webmin 1.100 minimum install 
> > running on Cygwin 1.3 
> > running on NT 
> > 
> > Client Setup: 
> > NT 
> > running IE 5.0 (have tried 6 as well) 
> > 
> > Both client and server are on a hub. Both are in the same subnet. 
> > 
> > Webmin/Cygwin is very vanilla and went without a hitch. Webmin options
> > are the 
> > defaults. 
> > 
> > Procedure to Reproduce problem: 
> > Scenario precondition: All browser proxies are disabled 
> > 1-step. I connect to the server via the client : http://1.2.3.4:10000
> (ip's
> > changed to protect the guilty) 
> > 1-result. I'm presented with the login screen. 
> > 2-step. I login 
> > 2-result. I'm presented with the webmin index 
> > 3-step. I select to monkey with Webmin Users 
> > 3-result. I am presented with the Webmin User page. 
> > 4-step. I select to edit the admin user group 
> > 4-result. I am presented with the edit user page 
> > 5-step. I make a change (this step is not necessary to reproduce) 
> > 6-step. I click save. 
> > 6-result. I am immediately presented with a this page cannot be displayed
> > browser error. 
> > 
> > TIDBIT 1: The interesting thing is that if I plug my hub into my network
> > and 
> > use configure the client browser to use a proxy, Webmin works wonderfully.
> > There are no problems. 
> > 
> > TIDBIT 2: Even though the page cannot be displayed, when I go back and
> > check 
> > the status of the user I just tried to edit, all the changes have taken
> > place. 
> > 
> > TIDBIT 3: Sometimes the server process dies after the failure. This could
> > have 
> > something to do with the fact editing users requires miniserv to restart.
> > I do 
> > not think it has reboot when using a simple file creation module. 
> > 
> > 
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