[Catalyst] test server unexpectedly closing connections

[Thomas Hartman]

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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