From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T07:02:59+09:00
Subject: Mozilla/WEBrick strangeness

Here's the situation: I have a simple webapp hosted under WEBrick. The
Ruby script that starts it also spawn a browser and sends it to the
index page.

In IE 6, this works flawlessly. In recent versions of Firefox and
Mozilla, I randomly get "Bad Request-Line `'. " errors and broken
content on static files being requested. (I especially like the three
characters `'. in the message -- it helps my debugging immensely.)

Now, there are a few wrinkles: elsewhere in the app, I'm using
XMLHTTPRequest objects to do asynchronous XML-RPC calls to the WEBrick
server. (Note: those are completing just fine.) Also, as I said, the
problem is apparently random: the same page may or may not work in two
different invocations of the tool, without any changes to the runtime
environment.

I've been hitting my head up against this problem for about two weeks
now, and I really just want it to go away.

Any ideas, folks?

-- 
Lennon
rcoder.net