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Re: Elemental Challenge
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:15:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
When I clicked on the set-image (to get the enlarged view) for URL below, I
got the frowny-face "Direct Image Link Not Supported".
Just Look at http://guide.lugnet.com/set/312_1

Your browser (apparently MSIE 5.01 for Win98) doesn't appear to be sending
the referring page URL consistently (or, more importantly, correctly in all
cases).  Oddly, It's sending the raw IP address as part of the URL some of
the time and the canonical DNS version other times.  For example, when loading
the /set/nav_r.gif image, one time it sent
  http://209.197.105.8/set/312_1
for the referring page and another time it sent:
  http://guide.lugnet.com/set/312_2

I've never seen anything that bizarre from an HTTP client before.  Both are
valid and correct URLs, but the raw IP address version isn't a valid URL of
a referring page.

By any chance, were you putting the raw IP address into the URL by hand
and accessing the HTML pages that way?  The code that checks to see if the
oops.gif graphic should be displayed looks for a host name ending in
.lugnet.com, for example the img.lugnet.com host.  If the raw IP address
is used, the pattern match would fail.

The raw IP stuff is because of our firewall.  Whenever the firewall decides
we need to re-authenticate, whatever http request being processed at the
time gets converted/returned to the raw IP.

I'll pay attention, and see what happens the next time I check a set guide
page, and have to re-authenticate.  I'll let you know what turns out.

Steve



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  Re: Elemental Challenge
 
(...) Steve: Never mind on trying to repeat it -- I see the occurrence in the HTTP logs about 3 minutes before you posted the question about it. Your browser (apparently MSIE 5.01 for Win98) doesn't appear to be sending the referring page URL (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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