Problems with sample httpd setup

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

Steve,

Looks like this is caused because the default setting for MaxHeaderSize(256)
is too less for most browsers. Increase the values for this and you should
be ok.

Chandru

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Purcell [mailto:stephen_purcell@REDACTED]
> Sent: 8 August 2001 09:54
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Problems with sample httpd setup
> 
> 
> O Wise Ones,
> 
> I'm running the Open Source Erlang packaged with Debian 
> Linux; version 7.3,
> containing erts version 5.0.2.4 and inets version 2.5.6.
> 
> Having copied the sample server_root to '/var/tmp' and set 
> the ServerName,
> I can then start httpd successfully using the method prescribed in
> the docs:-
> 
>   Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.0.2.4 [source]
> 
>   Eshell V5.0.2.4  (abort with ^G)
>   1> httpd:start().
>   {ok,<0.31.0>}
> 
> However, when I then make a request (from a variety of 
> standard browsers) to
> the server (via http://localhost:8888/), the server 
> disconnects and the error
> log shows up the following mis-formatted message which I partially
> decoded as 'Error reading request':
> 
>   [08/Aug/2001:10:48:20 +0200] server crash for 127.0.0.1, 
> reason: [69,
>     114, 114, 111, 114, 32, 114, 101, 97, 100, 105, 110, 103, 32, 114,
>     101, 113, 117, 101, 115, 116, 58, 32, [104, 101, 97, 100, 
> 101, 114,
>     32, 116, 111, 111, 32, 108, 111, 110, 103, 58, 32, "256", 
> 32, 43, 32,
>     "223"]]
> 
> Is this a known problem? Any help would be appreciated. (I 
> would prefer to
> get a working example configuration for my installed erlang 
> components than
> to upgrade those components.)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Steve
> 



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