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Re: Elemental Challenge
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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