Apache 2.0 Proxy & Windows Update

I'm not a developer but am in desperate need of some help for the Apache
2.0 proxy mod. I've been running it on 2.0.43 (and just tried 2.0.44
with the same result) and I keep getting errors when my users try to
access http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ . It says and error has
occured and won't let you update your computer. I installed the Apache
1.3 on the same box with the same options and it works just fine so it's
isolated to 2.0. Does anyone have any suggestions or help? I would
really appreciate any assistance.

Sincerely,
Jay W. Reffner
Network Systems Manager
The University of Findlay

Re: Apache 2.0 Proxy & Windows Update

This isn't too surprizing... a patch was just committed (after .44) to the
2.0.45-dev tree that will prevent us from removing the content-length.

Although we use either connection: close or chunked responses, it seems
many Windows 'client' apps including Adobe's Acrobat+IE absolutely barf
when they don't see a content-length (even though it's optional) in conjunction
with byteranges. Since all windows download/updates tools use byteranges
to skip through and resume transmisssions, there is a pretty good chance
this will be licked in 2.0.45.

Bill

At 06:35 PM 1/22/2003, Jay W. Reffner wrote:
>I'm not a developer but am in desperate need of some help for the Apache 2.0 proxy mod. I've been running it on 2.0.43 (and just tried 2.0.44 with the same result) and I keep getting errors when my users try to access http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ . It says and error has occured and won't let you update your computer. I installed the Apache 1.3 on the same box with the same options and it works just fine so it's isolated to 2.0. Does anyone have any suggestions or help? I would really appreciate any assistance.
>
>Sincerely,
>Jay W. Reffner
>Network Systems Manager
>The University of Findlay
>

Re: Apache 2.0 Proxy & Windows Update

Jay W. Reffner wrote:

> I'm not a developer but am in desperate need of some help for the Apache
> 2.0 proxy mod. I've been running it on 2.0.43 (and just tried 2.0.44
> with the same result) and I keep getting errors when my users try to
> access http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ . It says and error has
> occured and won't let you update your computer.

Can you try a nightly build of httpd v2.0.45-dev and see if it fixes
your problem?

Regards,
Graham
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Re: Apache 2.0 Proxy & Windows Update

I will try it this morning.

Thanks,
Jay

Graham Leggett wrote:

> Jay W. Reffner wrote:
>
>> I'm not a developer but am in desperate need of some help for the
>> Apache 2.0 proxy mod. I've been running it on 2.0.43 (and just tried
>> 2.0.44 with the same result) and I keep getting errors when my users
>> try to access http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ . It says and
>> error has occured and won't let you update your computer.
>
>
> Can you try a nightly build of httpd v2.0.45-dev and see if it fixes
> your problem?
>
> Regards,
> Graham

Re: Apache 2.0 Proxy & Windows Update

Thank you for the response.  I'll try a nightly build and see how that goes.



Thanks,

Jay



William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:

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This isn't too surprizing... a patch was just committed (after .44) to the

2.0.45-dev tree that will prevent us from removing the content-length.



Although we use either connection: close or chunked responses, it seems

many Windows 'client' apps including Adobe's Acrobat+IE absolutely barf

when they don't see a content-length (even though it's optional) in conjunction

with byteranges.  Since all windows download/updates tools use byteranges

to skip through and resume transmisssions, there is a pretty good chance

this will be licked in 2.0.45.



Bill



At 06:35 PM 1/22/2003, Jay W. Reffner wrote:

  

I'm not a developer but am in desperate need of some help for the Apache 2.0 proxy mod.  I've been running it on 2.0.43 (and just tried 2.0.44 with the same result) and I keep getting errors when my users try to access  .  It says and error has occured and won't let you update your computer.  I installed the Apache 1.3 on the same box with the same options and it works just fine so it's isolated to 2.0.  Does anyone have any suggestions or help?  I would really appreciate any assistance.



Sincerely,

Jay W. Reffner

Network Systems Manager

The University of Findlay