remote http call error 1

[brownfox]

When a purchase is made from my site I have mals-e.com send a remote http request to a page that updates the database etc. However it always fails - in debug mode I get this:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Plus some other stuff about get vars...

If I hit the page in a browser, everything works OK. If I use putty I get the same HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily error. Is this the problem I wonder? Why would the remote call fail when a browser request works...?
T.I.A

 

[sleipnir214]

If you look, you'll see that the site won't let you give yourself a star. So I know that line was hyperbolic at least.


You're right, there are limits to what can be transmitted in a GET-method input. But there are no hard-and-fast rules. Different browsers allow URLs of different maximum lengths. And since GET-method values are placed in environment variables, the underlying web server's OS can afffect how much can be sent in a GET, too.

I remember one RFC somewhere saying that a URL should be no more than 255 characters long. But I can't find the reference, so I can't even say I didn't imagine it.



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[brownfox]

UPDATE - I was apparently wrong on this. you will get a browser redirect if you go to

http://yoursite.com.

You should do full URL

http://www.yoursite.com

to avoid 302 redirect error when trying remote http request. So for google (and anyone else):
remote http error - do full URL

 

[sleipnir214]

That is web-server specific. I always configure my DNS and web server's sites to allow both

http://www.foo.bar

and foo.bar.

But you're right in general. Unless you know the above is true, don't assume it.



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[brownfox]

As always thanks for your help sleipnir214...