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totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching?

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First post2014-03-19 17:25 +0000
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  totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-19 17:25 +0000
    Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-03-19 20:06 +0100
      Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-03-19 14:32 -0500
        Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-19 23:42 +0000
      Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-19 23:42 +0000
    Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Gabe <usenet@moojuice.net> - 2014-03-19 21:39 +0000
      Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-19 23:43 +0000
        Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Gabe <usenet@moojuice.net> - 2014-03-20 08:29 +0000
    Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2014-03-19 18:34 -0700
      Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-20 03:10 +0000
        Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2014-03-19 21:26 -0700
          Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-20 11:13 +0000
    Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-03-20 10:13 +0100
      Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-20 11:26 +0000
        Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-03-20 08:43 -0400
        Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-03-20 15:53 +0100
          Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-20 18:39 +0000
            Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-03-21 08:33 +0100
            Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Nisse Engström <news.NOSPAM.uvex6@luden.se> - 2014-03-22 07:24 +0100
              Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-22 12:10 +0000
                Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-03-22 10:48 -0500
                  Re: totally WEIRD bug? Firefox caching? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-03-22 18:08 +0000

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#13266

FromRobert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>
Date2014-03-22 10:48 -0500
Message-ID<_aadnfFhz7t_LbDOnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#13265
At Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:10:00 +0000 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> 
> On 22/03/14 06:24, Nisse Engström wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:39:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> >
> >> The problem is that it didn't send an error code in the header
> >>
> >> It sent a valid header, the some error text, and then the PNG
> >>
> >> I generate all my own headers so there's a strange bug somewhere, but at
> >> least I know where to look.
> >
> > I don't know if it is relevant, but there's a long standing bug
> > in Apache where it sends its own HTTP response after the output
> > of an NPH-scipt. If I recall correctly.
> >
> 
> Mmm.
> 
> I took a break from coding after tearing my hair out on this one. So I 
> still haven't tracked it down to the bottom. I needed to step back and 
> look at the authorisation mechanisms which were getting so complicated 
> even I didn't entirely understand them, and write some documentation on 
> them and construct some state machine charts so that I could look at 
> them and construct the right conditional tests for a 2D matrix of 
> authorisation possibilities.
> 
> Because the problem had two aspects - firstly it was failing 
> authorisation when it shouldn't, and secondly it wasn't behaving 
> correctly for refused authorisation.
> 
> 
> But I will bear that in mind.
> 
> And thanks to all those who prompted things that were in fact the wrong 
> answers, because in the end that led me to the right answer.

Standard scientific methology -- one learns as much from 'failed' experiments
as from successful experiments. Also: "Once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is the answer." (Or
something like that) -- quoted from a well know fictional character...

> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > /Nisse
> >
> 
> 

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#13267

FromDoug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com>
Date2014-03-22 18:08 +0000
Message-ID<XnsA2F88FB74E2D9dougmilmaccom@78.46.70.116>
In reply to#13266
Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote in news:
_aadnfFhz7t_LbDOnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@giganews.com:

> At Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:10:00 +0000 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 22/03/14 06:24, Nisse Engström wrote:
>> > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:39:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> >
>> >> The problem is that it didn't send an error code in the header
>> >>
>> >> It sent a valid header, the some error text, and then the PNG
>> >>
>> >> I generate all my own headers so there's a strange bug somewhere, but at
>> >> least I know where to look.
>> >
>> > I don't know if it is relevant, but there's a long standing bug
>> > in Apache where it sends its own HTTP response after the output
>> > of an NPH-scipt. If I recall correctly.
>> >
>> 
>> Mmm.
>> 
>> I took a break from coding after tearing my hair out on this one. So I 
>> still haven't tracked it down to the bottom. I needed to step back and 
>> look at the authorisation mechanisms which were getting so complicated 
>> even I didn't entirely understand them, and write some documentation on 
>> them and construct some state machine charts so that I could look at 
>> them and construct the right conditional tests for a 2D matrix of 
>> authorisation possibilities.
>> 
>> Because the problem had two aspects - firstly it was failing 
>> authorisation when it shouldn't, and secondly it wasn't behaving 
>> correctly for refused authorisation.
>> 
>> 
>> But I will bear that in mind.
>> 
>> And thanks to all those who prompted things that were in fact the wrong 
>> answers, because in the end that led me to the right answer.
> 
> Standard scientific methology -- one learns as much from 'failed' experiments
> as from successful experiments. Also: "Once you have eliminated the
> impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is the answer." (Or
> something like that) -- quoted from a well know fictional character...
> 
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must 
be the truth.

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