[Catalyst] IE has problems with catalyst

[James R. Leu]

Are you sure it not actually a DNS issue?  Check the URLs being sent back
by the cat app. Do they contain the FQDN you are expecting?  Are you able to
reproduce this issue on multiple IE machines?  Have you tried running
wireshark on the IE machine to watch exactly what it is doing on the wire?

Good luck

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:51:39AM -0700, snookums wrote:
> =

> No authentication is being used right now. I've also checked my apache co=
nfig
> and used the LiveHeader add-on to Firefox. The keep-alive headers seem to=
 be
> just as they should be. I'm beginning to suspect that the long processing
> time before the application can return content is the culprit. It can tak=
e a
> while before the body is returned. The browser consistently tries for abo=
ut
> 10 seconds and then throws a dns error screen up. I tried placing
> $c->engine->write calls throughout to keep the connection active, but it
> doesn't seem to have done anything. Thanks for your reply.
> =

> =

> Dami Laurent (PJ) wrote:
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> >  =

> > =

> >>-----Message d'origine-----
> >>De : snookums [mailto:kyle at lakeofburningfire.org] =

> >>Envoy=E9 : mercredi, 10. septembre 2008 12:03
> >>=C0 : catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk
> >>Objet : [Catalyst] IE has problems with catalyst
> >>
> >>
> >>I hope someone can point out to me what's wrong here. I have a catalyst
> >>application that I've been developing. It takes a submitted =

> >>link, processes
> >>it, and regurgitates it with some changes. It's a get request. The
> >>processing can take up to about 10 seconds. I thought =

> >>everything was going
> >>fine, but I'm developing on mac. I've been testing it in =

> >>Safari. I quickly
> >>found that IE users couldn't access my application. They can get to the
> >>front page, but when they submit a link, the browser runs for =

> >>a little while
> >>and then gives a dns error page: cannot access this page, page not
> >>available, etc. Apache error and access logs don't even show the hit.
> >>
> >>I looked online and found that the problem might have =

> >>something to do with
> >>the keep-alive option. I changed my main app file to look like this.
> >>
> >>use parent qw/Catalyst/;
> >>use Catalyst qw/-k
> >>                -Debug
> >>                ConfigLoader
> >>                Static::Simple
> >>                UserAgent
> >>                Unicode
> >>                Compress::Gzip/;
> >>our $VERSION =3D '0.01';
> >>
> >>That didn't fix the problem, but I noticed some improvement for slower
> >>connections that weren't even getting the front page before. I =

> >>also should
> >>mention that I'm using Catalyst with the latest versions of =

> >>perl, apache,
> >>and mod_perl. I tried changing a few of my keep-alive options =

> >>in apache conf
> >>as well to increase the time before dropping a connection. I =

> >>haven't noticed
> >>any difference.
> >>
> >>Can anyone tell me how -k works? Is there a default timeout =

> >>value that I can
> >>change? Is this even the problem?
> >>-- =

> > =

> > Hi,
> > =

> > If your hypothesis about needing Keepalive is correct, and if your
> > application in production runs under Apache, then you you need to activ=
ate
> > Keepalive in your Apache configuration; its not a Catalyst property. So
> > edit your httpd.conf and add
> > =

> >   KeepAlive On
> > =

> > One reason why this might be important is if you use the Microsoft NTLM
> > protocol for
> > authentifying your users (mod_auth_ntlm or mod_auth_sspi or
> > PerlAuthenHandler Apache2::AuthenNTLM); these definitely need KeepAlive=
 to
> > be on.
> > =

> > Hope this helps,
> > =

> > Best regards,
> > =

> > Laurent Dami
> > =

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