[uf-rest] AHAH Returning Mysterious 404s

[Bosko Milekic]

Consider these:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/66733
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68654
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/67416
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36705


Hope one helps.

-Bosko
http://tumbl.es/

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Andy Staines <andy at yellowswordfish.com> wrote:
>
>  On 11 Mar 2008, at 14:59PM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
>
>  > Hi Andy,
>  >
>  > On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Andy Staines wrote:
>  >> Good day
>  >> I am hoping someone can advise me
>  >> I am the author of a WordPress plugin (php) that makes various uses
>  >> of AHAH (straight from the wiki here). 99%+ of my users have no
>  >> problem but two or three receive 404 OK errors returned from each
>  >> call.
>  >
>  > Ouch. Do you mean those users get the error *every* time? For every
>  > client?
>
>  It can be hard to get good facts from users but yes - this is my
>  understanding (More below)
>
> >
>  >
>  >> We have investigated everything as far as I can tell. The
>  >> environments are not 'different' - Apache/Linux php4 or 5.
>  >> Permissions are not an issue.
>  >> If I paste the url of the php file that is being sent to the js/
>  >> AHAH routine directly into the browser it returns the correct
>  >> content with no problem. And typically of course, I cannot
>  >> reproduce the error but have seen it on a users site.
>  >
>  > Just so I understanding:
>  >
>  > 1. Your plugin users are site owners, who have installed it on your
>  > site.
>
>  on their site - yes.
>
> >
>  >
>  > 2. User A has no problems
>  >
>  > 3. User B, with an identical server setup, constantly has *their*
>  > users getting 404s every time they hit that page, no matter which
>  > browser they use
>  >
>  > Is that correct?
>
>  I cannot be 100% sure yet about server setup and I can not vouch for
>  EVERY browser but in essence this is correct.
>
>  So far this has effected 4 out of about 200 installs (this was only
>  released on Saturday). But I had been working with a beta-user who was
>  the first, who DID try several browsers and I do know is hosted on a
>  Linux/Apache server. Indeed his host is also mystified as they have an
>  AHAH based example page which works just fine.
>
>  This has to come down to an environmental/set-up issue (I assume) so
>  this morning I have emailed all four users and asked them to supply
>  answers to specific questions around their hosting set up, their
>  WordPress set-up, browsers used and tried, software versions etc. My
>  aim of course is to try and hunt down the common denominator but like
>  many WP users who run blogs, mostly these folk are not technical and
>  it can be hard for them to understand the issues and respond
>  accordingly.
>
>  Whether, when the results are in, something will stand out I do not
>  know but meanwhile if there are any tests of ideas anyone has I do
>  have at least one effected user who is willing to try just about
>  anything!
>
>  And I am grateful for you coming back to me. its hopefully going to be
>  something basic which are sometimes the hardest to find!
>
>  Thanks and regards
>  Andy
>
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > -enp
>  >>
>  >> My javascript is, shall we say, 'recently acquired' but I am not
>  >> doing anything complex - simply populating a div or two.
>  >> Can anyone possibly suggest where I should look for the source of
>  >> the problem. before I tear the rest of my hair out?
>  >> Any help would be much appreciated
>  >> Thanks
>  >> Andy