1 The "ikwiki.cgi?page=index&do=edit" function has a problem
2 when running with [[debpkg thttpd]] or [[debpkg mini-httpd]]:
3 for some reason the headers ikiwiki outputs are transmitted
4 as the page content. Surprisingly, the "do=prefs" function
7 Here is what it looks like in iceweasel:
9 Set-Cookie: ikiwiki_session_apnkit=99dad8d796bc6c819523649ef25ea447; path=/
10 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:16:32 GMT
11 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
13 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
14 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
18 Ikiwiki runs fine with [[debpkg boa]].
22 It doesn't work for signin either.
23 What is the reason for these "header => 1" in FormBuilder initialisations?
24 Why do they appear two times with conflicting values in the very same hashes?
28 > Clearly those duplicate header settings are a mistake. But in all cases, the
29 > `header => 0` came second, so it _should_ override the other value and
30 > can't be causing this problem. (cgi_signin only sets it to 0, too).
32 > What version of formbuilder are you using? If you run ikiwiki.cgi at the
33 > command line, do you actually see duplicate headers? I don't:
35 joey@kodama:~/html>REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING="page=index&do=edit" ./ikiwiki.cgi
36 Set-Cookie: ikiwiki_session_joey=41a847ac9c31574c1e8f5c6081c74d12; path=/
37 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:04:06 GMT
38 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
40 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
42 > Do thttpd and mini-httpd perhaps not realize that Set-Cookis is the start of
43 > the headers? --[[Joey]]
45 >> Thanks for your help: I think I found the problem!
46 >> Ikiwiki outputs (in my case) the following
47 >> error message on stderr, followed by an empty line:
49 /srv/ikiwiki/wc/index.mdwn: (Not a versioned resource)
51 >> Probably thttpd and mini-httpd read stderr as well as stdout, while apache
52 >> and boa don't. When using a shell-script wrapper as the CGI,
53 >> which redirects ikiwiki's error output to /dev/null, it works better.
55 >> The edit still fails to commit, because in my wiki, index.mdwn is
56 >> pulled from the base wiki and somehow ikiwiki wants to change it
57 >> rather that create it.
59 >> --[[JeremieKoenig]]
61 >>> If thttpd and mini-httpd interpret CGI's stderr as stdout, then
62 >>> they're not properly following the CGI spec, and will break with tons
63 >>> of cgi scripts besides ikiwiki. And of course there are many many cases
64 >>> where ikiwiki might output to stderr, and that's the right thing to do.
65 >>> So I don't see any way to address this in ikiwiki. --[[Joey]]
67 >>>> (reported as [[debbug 437927]] and [[debbug 437932]]) --[[JeremieKoenig]]