Re: FAQ Correction

Ok.

Changed to read

Joe Cooper reports this to be caused by SSL problems in some browsers
(mainly Netscape 6.x/Mozilla) if your webmin is SSL enabled. Try with
another browser such as Netscape 4.x or Microsoft IE, or disable SSL
encryption in webmin.

but still I have a hard time to beleive that it is only the browser that
is at fault here. To diagnose the problem in detail the tool "ssldump"
is a nice one.

Regards
Henrik

Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> 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
Received on Sat Nov 03 2001 - 03:15:26 MST