[Catalyst] test server unexpectedly closing connections

[Thomas Hartman]

Oh, answering my own question, I guess the catalyst test server itself
was serving pages, like in the tutorial.

2006/7/17, Thomas Hartman <thomashartman1 at googlemail.com>:
> What was your original deployment platform? Mod perl?
>
> 2006/7/15, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>:
> > I've just debugged my way through something quite fiddly. Test server
> > working fine with Firefox, but not IE. It turned out that POSTing to a
> > page which then redirects and sets a cookie (not sure which if either
> > is critical factor, I suspect the Location: header) closes the
> > connection right after the Location: header. IE doesn't cope well with
> > this and you get a "Page unavailable" error. Submitting via GET
> > doesn't close the connection.
> >
> > I'm too short on time to exhaustively test this or create a test case
> > or even fix it, sorry, but figure better to post something.
> >
> > The workaround is to use GET (not great; auth in address bar), another
> > deployment platform, e.g. FastCGI, or not use IE (not great;
> > unrealistic). I opted for a different deployment environment.
> >
> > HTH someone anyway -
> > Paul
> >
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