FAQ Correction

Perhaps this is the right place for FAQ corrections?

Reading over the FAQ I noticed a somewhat misleading entry. The
following is not a bug of Webmin:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.47

It states that Webmin spawns numerous cachemgr.cgis. This only happens
with buggy Netscape and Mozilla versions (NS6/6.01/6.1, Mozilla up to
the daily from 09/14, I think) and when SSL encrypted communication is
enabled in Webmin. It is Netscape/Mozilla that is buggy in this regard
and the same problem will result with any of the pages in Webmin under
the right circumstances...Disabling SSL encryption in Webmin works
around the problem, as well.

Webmin works fine as the server for cachemgr.cgi with all versions of NS
up to 4.xx, Lynx, and all IE revisions. Probably Konqueror and Opera
and others do fine as well.

The solution given in the FAQ simply won't solve the problem in any case
I can think of--the Webmin cachemgr.cgi /is/ the Squid cachemgr.cgi, it
does not have its own* and it relies on the one that is already
installed on the system (though maybe not the one in the cgi-bin
directory, since Red Hat puts it in /usr/lib/squid).

*-Ok, Webmin does have its own program called cachemgr.cgi, but it is a
wrapper around the real one to put a footer on the pages. Changing the
path to cachemgr.cgi in the Webmin configuration does not remove this
wrapper from the loop--so it is always in use regardless of where the
real cachemgr.cgi program is located. So changing the path to
cachemgr.cgi in Webmin cannot alter its behavior, and cannot cause or
solve the problem given.

-- 
Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
http://www.swelltech.com
Web Caching Appliances and Support