Reloading pages

[Stephen Fitzpatrick]

Joe Pasqua <pasqua at mv.us.adobe.com>:
 > Go to any page, say http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/. It loads
 > fine. Reload the page. A "Request Failed"dialog comes up saying:
 > 	Access forbidden by rule http://<proxy server
 > 	here>/http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/

I believe the reload problems are caused by OW adding an extra / to the URL  
before prepending the proxy/caching server's URL. For example, my proxy's log  
shows requests such as
	GET http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/ HTTP/1.0
for the first request for a page, but
	GET /http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/ HTTP/1.0
when I reload the page. This was indeed reported a while back, but is still  
present in PR1.2 (under NextStep 3.0).

There is a workaround if you have access to your proxy server's configuration:  
add a line to translate incorrect requests. For example, for the CERN (3.0)  
daemon
	Map /http:* http:*
(this should appear *before* the PASS line for http proxying).
A similar line should probably be added for each protocol that is proxied.

John Soward <soward at dab.slip.uky.edu>:
 > Also note that if your proxy server has caching enabled, you will
 > never be   able to reload correctly...this is not a problem with
 > OmniWeb...I've been   able to re-load okay most of the time while
 > using a CERN proxy server with   caching turned off...
That's interesting: I've no problem using the caching proxy with any other  
browser (lynx, XMosaic - horrible experience that), so I assume it is an OW  
problem. It may be that the proxy/no-cache configuration manages to correct  
the incorrect URLs OW seems to be sending to the proxy.

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