[uf-rest] AHAH Returning Mysterious 404s

[Rajesh nair]

---- Original Message -----
From: Andy Staines <andy at yellowswordfish.com>
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:56 am
Subject: Re: [uf-rest] AHAH Returning Mysterious 404s

> >> 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?
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> Good day again Ernest
> Well the results are in! Of the four people with this problem 
> there is  
> nothing that is an EXACT match. Different browsers, slightly 
> different  
> Apache versions (all 1.3.xx however) etc.
> It is impossible to claim that these people have an 'identical 
> server  
> setup' as users without the problem as they are all with different 
> 
> hosting companies. And some have different configurations of where 
> 
> they run their WP install from. But I can say there is nothing  
> noticeably unusual about these users although it is quite 
> obviously  
> going to be an environmental issue of some sort. But where to look!
> I am truly stumped.
> Andy

Andy ,
Do you have the HTTP request packet dump.
If not , I will suggest you to look in there and compare the two (UserA
and UserB).

-- Rajesh Nair
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > -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
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