Failure to POST data to secure URL

When posting form data to a secure URL my server is dropping the user back
to the index page. I've noticed this in several applications. Some I have
written in PHP, other written in Python (TMDA-cgi). It is not nessecarily a
large amount of data, one form has only 2 fields, though when there is a
larger amount of data, the problem is more frequent. If I don't use a secure
url (https) then the forms work fine.

I've gone through all the http logs, access, error, ssl_engine etc. and find
nothing to suggest a problem. After submitting the form, the user is simply
taken back to the home page of the site.

I'm using apache 1.3.29
mod_ssl/2.8.16
OpenSSL/0.9.7c
on linux Redhat.

The above programs where compiled not packages installed with redhat.

This issue has created quite a problem and I really would appreciate any
help.

ron

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Ron Dyck
Webbtech
www.webbtech.net
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Re: Failure to POST data to secure URL

I seem to remember AOL users at one point in time having problems like this
when they post from one frame to another in a browser.

Don't know if that problem still occurs, but I know it used to in AOL. It
was a pain in the ass for me to have to work around.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Dyck"
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 6:54 AM
Subject: Failure to POST data to secure URL


> When posting form data to a secure URL my server is dropping the user
back
> to the index page. I've noticed this in several applications. Some I have
> written in PHP, other written in Python (TMDA-cgi). It is not nessecarily
a
> large amount of data, one form has only 2 fields, though when there is a
> larger amount of data, the problem is more frequent. If I don't use a
secure
> url (https) then the forms work fine.
>
> I've gone through all the http logs, access, error, ssl_engine etc. and
find
> nothing to suggest a problem. After submitting the form, the user is
simply
> taken back to the home page of the site.
>
> I'm using apache 1.3.29
> mod_ssl/2.8.16
> OpenSSL/0.9.7c
> on linux Redhat.
>
> The above programs where compiled not packages installed with redhat.
>
> This issue has created quite a problem and I really would appreciate any
> help.
>
> ron
>
> ==================================
> Ron Dyck
> Webbtech
> www.webbtech.net
> ==================================
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________ __________
> Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org
> User Support Mailing List modssl-users@modssl.org
> Automated List Manager majordomo@modssl.org

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