Should util_httppost send a "Host:" header field? I don't know anything about HTTP, but from a quick Google, I notice that it is required in 1.1 and not even mentioned in the 1.0 protocol. Even though util_httppost specifies the 1.0 protocol, I have very painfully found at least one server that returns a 403 (forbidden?) error if the Host field is not specified. The server identifies itself as Netscape-Enterprise/4.0. When I output a Host field in util_httppost, everybody's happy.
I debugged this by comparing the output of curl -d, Perl LWP POST, and util_httppost.
Also, it was very helpful to be able to insert "ns_log Notice whatever" messages in the openacs and aolserver TCL code (a big deal for me -- I didn't even know that a big part of the aolserver interface is written in TCL).
Now, back to that script that I said I would have done by tomorrow. Thanks for the 3 hour detour, Netscape. Only 3 or 4 more to go, hopefully.
-Kevin Murphy
