[Issues] [mod_gnutls 0000095]: use of mod_gnutls creates maximum POST limit in Firefox
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http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95
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Reported By: nitro322
Assigned To:
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Project: mod_gnutls
Issue ID: 95
Category: Other
Reproducibility: always
Severity: major
Priority: normal
Status: new
Apache Version: 2.2.10
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Date Submitted: 2009-03-22 12:38 EDT
Last Modified: 2009-07-14 10:41 EDT
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Summary: use of mod_gnutls creates maximum POST limit in
Firefox
Description:
Note: This is using version 0.5.4 of mod_gnutls, but there wasn't a choice
for that in the Product Version list.
I've come across a problem with mod_gnutls and Firefox that's rather
difficult to explain. After switching to mod_gnutls (from openssl), I
found that I could no longer edit any of "long" posts on my Drupal site.
When clicking the submit button, firefox would try to send the POST about
6 times, then give up and return a completely blank page.
Only edits over https were affected; edits over http worked fine. Other
browsers (Konqueror and Opera) also worked fine. It took a while to
troubleshoot, but I was able to narrow it down to a combination of
mod_gnutls and Firefox.
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Total Sponsorship = US$ 5
2009-05-18 18:59: ZyanKLee (US$ 5)
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(0000142) nitro322 (reporter) - 2009-04-01 23:48
http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95#c142
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This issue caused too many problems on my site, so I had to switch back to
mod_ssl. As a result, the test page I posted will no longer show the
problem (this issue doesn't exist with mod_ssl).
I'm going to have to stick with mod_ssl until this problem is resolved, as
I need to be able to POST data to my website. If I can do anything to help
troubleshoot this, feel free to ask; I'm very interested in this project,
and I've left my mod_gnutls configuration commented out in the hope that I
can switch over to it again some day.
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(0000143) jeff42 (reporter) - 2009-04-28 06:38
http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95#c143
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I can semi-confirm this bug:
Only when I send large POST data with xulrunner based browsers on Debian I
encounter this bug,
Neither firefox on Windows nor Firefox on Linux (downloaded from
Mozilla.com) seem to fail.
But also switching back to mod_ssl everything works fine, so there must
also be a problem in mod_gnutls
Addition: I was wrong about firefox on linux from Mozilla, this also fails
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(0000145) ZyanKLee (reporter) - 2009-05-18 18:57
http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95#c145
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I can confirm this problem.
At my side its not a drupal, but a wordpress, but I guess this is less
important.
When I use mod_gnutls with apache2 and firefox3 I get with big posts and
edits the same behaviour as nitro322 described. After reverting to mod_ssl
everything works fine.
So I needed to stay with mod_ssl.
Some facts for reproducing:
SERVER x86:
# apache2 -version
Server version: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix)
# php --version
PHP 5.2.9-pl2-gentoo with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: May 18 2009
21:06:41)
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies
# gnutls-cli --version
gnutls-cli (GnuTLS) 2.6.6
# qlist -I -v | grep mod_gnutls
www-apache/mod_gnutls-0.5.3
CLIENT amd64:
Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009051307
Gentoo Firefox/3.0.10
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
$ gnutls-cli --version
gnutls-cli (GnuTLS) 2.6.6
Hope this helps.
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(0000146) marlowe (reporter) - 2009-06-07 18:11
http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95#c146
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I can also confirm this bug. When attempting to send POST messages to
squirrelmail through mod_gnutls, the page returned is blank. This error
does not occur when connecting through IE. The error disappears when
using a non-Firefox browser, sending to http rather than https or using
mod_ssl rather than mod_gnutls.
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(0000149) ZyanKLee (reporter) - 2009-06-22 08:47
http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95#c149
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Also reported at debian bugzilla:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513249
and in mozilla bugtracker:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490442
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(0000152) nmav (manager) - 2009-06-30 13:57
http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95#c152
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Could I have a capture of wireshark of the data transferred when this error
happens? Also compiling mod_gnutls with MOD_GNUTLS_DEBUG equal to 1 (change
mod_gnutls.h) will create /tmp/gnutls_debug that contains useful
information. Please send that to me or attach it here.
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(0000166) marlowe (reporter) - 2009-07-14 10:41
http://issues.outoforder.cc/view.php?id=95#c166
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I should be able to get this to you by the end of the week. Sorry I can't
get it to you sooner, but I am on the road the next couple of days.
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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2009-03-22 12:38 nitro322 New Issue
2009-03-22 12:38 nitro322 Apache Version => 2.2.10
2009-04-01 23:48 nitro322 Note Added: 0000142
2009-04-27 10:11 jeff42 Note Added: 0000143
2009-04-28 06:38 jeff42 Note Edited: 0000143
2009-04-29 02:20 jeff42 Issue Monitored: jeff42
2009-04-29 09:04 urkle version 0.4.0 => 0.5.4
2009-05-18 18:49 ZyanKLee Note Added: 0000145
2009-05-18 18:57 ZyanKLee Note Edited: 0000145
2009-05-18 18:59 ZyanKLee Sponsorship Added ZyanKLee: US$ 5
2009-05-18 18:59 ZyanKLee Sponsorship Total 0 => 5
2009-05-18 18:59 ZyanKLee Issue Monitored: ZyanKLee
2009-06-07 18:11 marlowe Note Added: 0000146
2009-06-22 08:30 ZyanKLee Tag Attached: apache2
2009-06-22 08:30 ZyanKLee Tag Attached: big packages
2009-06-22 08:30 ZyanKLee Tag Attached: error
2009-06-22 08:30 ZyanKLee Tag Attached: firefox
2009-06-22 08:30 ZyanKLee Tag Attached: mod_gnutls
2009-06-22 08:34 ZyanKLee Note Added: 0000149
2009-06-22 08:47 ZyanKLee Note Edited: 0000149
2009-06-30 13:57 nmav Note Added: 0000152
2009-06-30 14:15 nmav Issue Monitored: nmav
2009-07-14 10:41 marlowe Note Added: 0000166
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