Bugs & ToDo Known Bugs

Depending on the operating system and the environment, there are certain bugs within this program or its modules. The table shows the type of bug, where it exists and which platforms are affected by it. These short cuts are used:

Problems, which have been solved, are marked by italic text and a note, when the bug was fixed.

Type of BugLocation Fixed?Operating System
OS/2Win32 Unix
When first administration is done and a user name & password for a WWW administrator is set, login fails with a security alert. shttpdyes yes yes yes
Solution:
Some browsers have big problems when using the HyperText Transfer Protocol's method POST for transfering data. It seems, that some of them truncate or corrupt data. Some buggy ones are:
  • Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.05
    corrupts data
  • Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.04
    corrupts data at the 88th character of a line
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0x
    corrupts data with no fix scheme, but mostly after the 120th character
After re-installing the original configuration file httpd.cfg - you have to replace it, since it gets corrupted -, you may re-do setting a WWW administrator, but specify only one character each for user name and password! When you successfully entry the main administration menu, you may then select the user list of the SEC_admin group, add the correct data and remove the waste entry. That should work.

Note:
Fixed with version 0.03 - HTTP method GET is also supported and used per default for updates of the server's configuration.
Server cannot find its modules.all modules -yes yes-
Solution:
make sure, that the path of the WWW server is specified within the list of DLL directories (i.e. DPATH under IBM OS/2's config.sys).
Server cannot find its modules.all modules -- -yes
Solution:
make sure, that the path of the WWW server is specified within the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
Connection crashes, when a certain number of CGIs is executed. It seems, as if sub-shells remain as zombie processes. MOD_cgiyes yes yes-
Solution:
Fixed with version 0.04 - the CGI handling has been optimized, the original handle for stdin/stdout are now saved only one time instead of each time per access (Windows: stdin/stdout of WWW server isn't even redirected any-more!)
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