Mailman problem

Simon L. B. Nielsen simon at nitro.dk
Mon Apr 25 07:21:21 UTC 2011


On 24 Apr 2011, at 19:27, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:

> On 24 Apr 2011, at 19:02, b. f. wrote:
> 
> [cut]
>> With (1) and (2), if I attempt to follow the link on
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo ,
>> 
>> the request fails with the error message:
>> 
>> "FreeBSD.org - Document not found
>> 
>> The file
>> 
>> http://realcgi.sky.freebsd.org
> [...]
>> If instead I attempt to go directly to (note the difference in case:
>> FreeBSD --> freebsd):
> [...]
> 
> Ah, the problem must be that the matching is case sensitive, I can reproduce with with curl.
> 
> Fails: curl http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
> Works: curl http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
> I guess many modern browsers simply make the hostname lowercase in the request, and that's why I haven't noticed the problem before.


Hey,

I think I have fixed it now by making the comparison case insensitive.

I now know a but more about Varnish configuration :) - thanks for all the tests and the details report.

-- 
Simon L. B. Nielsen



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