couzteau
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hello,
i 've got a very strange problem and i havn't got a clue how to solve it:
I made a little website to upload files via http a. it also submits some data in text form. nothing special. i implemeted it using perl/cgi. it is hosted on an imac running 10.2.4, very basic stuff. the imac is connected to the internet in the it-department of a large company. currently i don't know how the routing and the firewalls work (but i can find out if necessary)
the strange thing is:
using the site (uploading files and submitting text) works fine on some machines and on others it works partially(only submitting text works). it depends on how or where the machine is connected to the internet, ie i can hook up my ibook at home directly to my dsl line and have no problem at all, (uploading files and submitting text work fine). when i hook it up via another machine that serves as an internetrouter (from my kitchen) i can browse the site, i can submit text data, but i cannot submit files:
i use the following html-code for submitting the file:
when i hit submit in one of the problem locations (i.e my kitchen) nothing happens until the browser errors with a timeout. there is no entry in the logfile of the webserver (neither error nor access_log) .
hosting the site on a different machine (ie a sun running solaris/apache 1.2.7, or my g4 running osx 10.2.4 with dsl) solves the problem. it must run on the imac though, i can use the other servers for testing purposes only.
i'm very sure this is not a browser issue. i'm not sure whether the problem lies on the server or a client machine. i assume it has nothing to do with the code that's used on the site. it's very simple and plain.
thanx in advance for your help
i 've got a very strange problem and i havn't got a clue how to solve it:
I made a little website to upload files via http a. it also submits some data in text form. nothing special. i implemeted it using perl/cgi. it is hosted on an imac running 10.2.4, very basic stuff. the imac is connected to the internet in the it-department of a large company. currently i don't know how the routing and the firewalls work (but i can find out if necessary)
the strange thing is:
using the site (uploading files and submitting text) works fine on some machines and on others it works partially(only submitting text works). it depends on how or where the machine is connected to the internet, ie i can hook up my ibook at home directly to my dsl line and have no problem at all, (uploading files and submitting text work fine). when i hook it up via another machine that serves as an internetrouter (from my kitchen) i can browse the site, i can submit text data, but i cannot submit files:
i use the following html-code for submitting the file:
<form action="http://my.server.org/cgi-bin/beam.pl" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="myfile" accept="text/*" maxlength="2097152">
<input type="submit" value="upload"><input type="reset">
</form>
when i hit submit in one of the problem locations (i.e my kitchen) nothing happens until the browser errors with a timeout. there is no entry in the logfile of the webserver (neither error nor access_log) .
hosting the site on a different machine (ie a sun running solaris/apache 1.2.7, or my g4 running osx 10.2.4 with dsl) solves the problem. it must run on the imac though, i can use the other servers for testing purposes only.
i'm very sure this is not a browser issue. i'm not sure whether the problem lies on the server or a client machine. i assume it has nothing to do with the code that's used on the site. it's very simple and plain.
thanx in advance for your help