[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:              2009-05-18 18:49 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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 (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 18:49
 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. 

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                          
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