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From: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache 1.2b2
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 01:52:58 +0000
Organization: Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/
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To: William Charnock <rocketfn@fastlane.net>
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William Charnock wrote:
>
> We recently upgraded our web server and installed the apache 1.2b2
> server. I have received several messages that people are unable to view
> the pages via AOL's browser. Has anyone else had reports of this?? And
> if so, do you know of any workarounds?? Thanks for any information..
This is what's known as the AOL shoots itself in the foot syndrome.
AOL have discovered that some servers (Apache 1.2) have moved on
to the HTTP/1.1 protocol. AOL haven't read/understood the specs so
rather than do that first, they've chosen to block access to 1.1
servers while they investigate the implications.
I've been running 1.2 as a HTTP/1.1 server for months and AOL users
have had no problems with it (and why should they ?). Now, AOL users
going through the AOL proxy are faced with a canned AOL message that
my server is using an unsupported HTTP language. Pah!
Now that AOL are aware of the problem, they're doing their best to
save face by trying to get the Apache developers to hack Apache 1.2
to pretend to be HTTP/1.0 while AOL sit on their hands for a while
before undoing their recent idiotic proxy change.
The AOL manager who okay'd this move should be made to answer the
AOL phone support lines for a year as punishment.
If you want to do something, read
http://www.apache.org/info/aol-http.html
and complain to AOL at web-support@aol.net
--
Rob Hartill. Internet Movie Database Ltd. http://www.imdb.com/
Apache Group http://www.apache.org/