Libproxy.so eat out the last past of my request with space in the name

Question

Hi,
I used the following 2 configurations:
1. Solaris: iPlanet Web Server WebLogic 6.1
2. W2000: IIS WebLogic 6.1
Both of the web server just work as a gateway. All static and dynamic pages (images, JavaScript file, CSS file) are served by the WebLogic Server. (This sounds a little bit wierd. So we dropped this kind of configuration already.)
I configured both the Web server to forward all requests with "*/portal/*" to WebLogic server. It works fine except the requests with space inside. For example:
http://localhost:8080/portal/abc def.html
(I encode space to when I type it in browser).
And I got a 404 error. (The file is really there.) And I checked both web server's access log, I saw the request for "abc def.html", but when I checked WebLogic's access log, I saw the request for "abc". So I think Weblogic's proxy eats out the last part of my request: "def.html". Of course, WebLogic server could not find a file called "abc" in that directory.
And finally, in order to test my observation, I created a file called "abc" in that directory. And then the browser shows the content of the file "abc".
Does anyone see this kind of problem before? I think this is a bug in weblogic's proxy program.

Answer 1

Hi.
Are you seeing this in both configurations (ie both iPlanet and IIS)?
Does the problem go away entirely when you hit the servers directly (ie iPlanet and IIS aren't involved)?
Are you running any service packs? You should be using service pack 2. If you are not please upgrade and use the plugin from this latest service pack.
Regards,
Michael
Xin Liu wrote:
Hi,
I used the following 2 configurations:
1. Solaris: iPlanet Web Server WebLogic 6.1
2. W2000: IIS WebLogic 6.1
Both of the web server just work as a gateway. All static and dynamic pages (images, JavaScript file, CSS file) are served by the WebLogic Server. (This sounds a little bit wierd. So we dropped this kind of configuration already.)
I configured both the Web server to forward all requests with "*/portal/*" to WebLogic server. It works fine except the requests with space inside. For example:
http://localhost:8080/portal/abc def.html
(I encode space to when I type it in browser).
And I got a 404 error. (The file is really there.) And I checked both web server's access log, I saw the request for "abc def.html", but when I checked WebLogic's access log, I saw the request for "abc". So I think Weblogic's proxy eats out the last part of my request: "def.html". Of course, WebLogic server could not find a file called "abc" in that directory.
And finally, in order to test my observation, I created a file called "abc" in that directory. And then the browser shows the content of the file "abc".
Does anyone see this kind of problem before? I think this is a bug in weblogic's proxy program.--
Michael Young
Developer Relations Engineer
BEA Support