Proxy/Firewall/WWW-Alias -> allowDirectoryListings must be true Error
Dave Winer
dave at userland.com
Sun Nov 25 08:33:46 PST 2001
Here's the crucial question -- what behavior do you want?
What do you want your readers to see when they go to www.yourserver.com?
Clearly not an error message or the directory listing, right?
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Robert Blesius" <cblesius at ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: <Manila-Newbies at userland.com>; <Frontier-users at userland.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:27 AM
Subject: Proxy/Firewall/WWW-Alias -> allowDirectoryListings must be true
Error
> It seems support has a lot to do (I have not received word on this
> problem yet), which is why I turn to the lists.
>
> We have a university server that acts as a www alias proxy for
> websites...
> and I get the following error when trying to retrieve the www root
> document from my sever when there is any kind of proxy in front of my
> Manila server:
>
> -------------
> Sorry! There was an error: The attribute "allowDirectoryListings" must
> be true.
> The error was detected by Frontier 7.0.1 in mainResponder.respond.
> Webmaster: webmaster at emsa-germany.de. Time: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:06:50
> GMT.
> -------------
>
> When I set "allowDirectoryListings" to true to get a round it (which I
> do not want to do), it lists the databases as files and does not pull up
> a page
>
> Here is our present address (please do not join the site.... it is not
> officially up yet) so you can try it out yourself:
>
> http://prototype.uni-hd.de/
> points to
> http://129.206.94.200/
>
> This is a major problem that seems to be very WIDE spread (which is why
> I would call it a bug)... just do a search on google
> Some examples pulled from google:
> http://www.voznuestra.com/
> http://www.telebridge.com:8080/
> http://websurfhawaii.com/
> http://dutoh16.io.tudelft.nl/
>
> We are not going to be using the university server as our final
> solution, but a very large domain name company that is hosting our
> present page as the domain name proxy provider. I know this a VERY
> common setup for a lot of people internationally, so I do not understand
> why this problem is not being taken seriously.
>
> Or maybe it is just a simple setting that I (and a few other people)
> have set incorrectly.
>
> Greetings from Germany,
> Carl Blesius
>
>
> I also wonder if it is related to an error that occurs when posting form
> behind a firewall and/or proxy:
> -------------
> Sorry! There was an error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name
> "referer" hasn't been defined.
> -------------
>
> This is a major problem for anyone sitting behind firewalls or
> proxys.... these are not uncommon (the error occurs behind our Squid
> Proxies and a CheckPoint Firewalls).
>
> HELP
>
>
>
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