[imp] The page cannot be displayed - problem

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Son Truong wrote:
>>
>> Are these default settings in Apache or Apache2? I built httpd-2.2.4
>> straight from the download. So when installed it puts its default
>> httpd.conf to which I edited...

Red Hat packages for either one work correctly.  Other distributions,
or the Apache packages, I can't comment on.

>>> This did indeed used to be a FAQ, but since it is now the default   
>>> in Apache,
>>> it is now rare...

Sounds like maybe it needs to be put back in the FAQ, though really
this is an Apache issue and not a Horde issue, and it really should be
in Apache's FAQ and not Hordes, but we all know how well that works...

> I fought this exact same problem (I think) here when I started adding
> some new Debian Etch servers to our pool of Webmail servers.  Users
> started reported random "page cannot be displayed" errors when
> composing an email using IE.  Luckily I saw the posts here at the same
> time and made the connection.  Comparing my old Debian Sarge (apache
> v1.3) configs with the new Debian Etch (apache v2.2) configs, showed
> that the following line was *not* present in Etch's apache v2.2 default
> install:
>
>   SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
>
> Adding that line seems to have fixed the problem.

You might ask the Debian folks to "fix" this in their build...

> Screw IE anyways.  :(

Yeah, they only have over 90% market share, so who needs them... ;)

> 	Andy

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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