After some hunting, it is now clear that I'm suffering
from an AOLserver issue. I'll be posting this on
the AOLserver website, but thought I'd post this here
as well.
In my first post, I'd said that the AOLserver installation
went fine. Well, actually, it didn't. If I start
AOLserver with the provided sample-config.tcl,
it shows the normal "Welcome to AOLserver" page on port
8000. I can reload the page any number of times and it
always shows the proper page. However, if I telnet to
port 8000, it gives the same "Invalid Request" error
I talked about above. From that point on, its behavior
from a browser becomes erratic -- sometimes it
shows the right page, and sometimes it gives the error.
After a little while of reloading the page, it degenerates
to always showing the error all the time. I've tried
four different browsers, with varying but similar results.
I've tried AOlserver 3.3+ad13 and 3.4.2 (both from
source), and also the debian package for 3.4.2 (which, incidentally, doesn't work at all). This machine is
running debian on a PA-RISC processor. I would've thought that debian is debian is debian, but maybe not.
Boohoo.
