Can't get GET / query_string params to work

[inlandpac]

How do I make it so that my server will allow query strings to be passed to files like swf, images, etc.

When I go to a file such as /dir/file.swf?name=value I get a 404. If I remove the ?name=value the file loads just fine.

What to do!!!!!!!!!

 

[NullTerminator]

I something translating .swf or image urls before they reach apache? Any rewrite rules?

What does the uri/querystring look like in the access_log?

 

[inlandpac]

This is an interesting one. The access logs show plenty of status 200s for this url but then there are periods of 404s

chat.l-word.com xxx.xxx.xxx.xx - [16/Mar/2006:17:09:48 -0600] "GET /main.swf?gatewayURL=http://chat.l-word.com//gateway.php?sessionname=1142550584 HTTP/1.1" "-" 404 300 "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

and they are intermingled, so I am clueless as to why this is happening. This is a load balanced solution with two web servers. I've confirmed that the configurations between the two are identical.

 

[feherke]

Hi

You shoud URL encode the query string. I mean, the value of gatewayURL, to not contain additional unenocoded question mark ( ? ).

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[inlandpac]

Why would we get a mixture of 200 AND 404 responses? I would think if it was purely the fact that the value in the request was not url encoded, we would always get a 404?

 

[feherke]

Hi

That is an evident error and often leads to problems. So I would correct that first. But is up to you.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[inlandpac]

Okay, I've fixed the url encoding part. I am still getting the 404s

http://chat.l-word.com/main.swf?gat...-word.com//gateway.php?sessionname=1144085297

 

[feherke]

Hi

Interesting problem. In your above log line the request came from an Explorer. Are there similar errors for requests from other browsers too ?

If not, I would try to compare the HTTP headers sent by Explorer and FireFox. For this are usefull the above extensions :

FireFox :

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Explorer :

http://www.blunck.info/iehttpheaders.html

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/