From: Brian Takita <brian.takita@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T16:25:56+09:00
Subject: Mongrel Patch - Fixes 404 Error in IE

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Hello,

Using Mongrel has been great. Thank you Zed for developing such a fine piece
of software.

For some reason, when using IE to access a Rails app running on a Mongrel
server, I get a 404 error. This is an intermittent error and does not happen
on all machines.

Upon further investigation, we noticed that IE sends a
GET http://localhost:3000/path/to/file
instead of
GET /path/to/file

This causes Mongrel to send back a 404, without sending the request to
Rails. It seems the GET http://localhost:3000/path/to/file does not map to
the proper handler.

We looked in the RFC (section 5.2),
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html, and it seems to
indicate that the web server should ignore the host part of an absolute uri
in the GET request. Am I correct on this?

I created a bug report at
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5053&group_id=1306&atid=5145
and a patch to fix it at
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5190&group_id=1306&atid=5147

Has this been an issue for anybody else?

Zed or anybody on the Mongrel core team, if you see this, please take a look
at the patch.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5190&group_id=1306&atid=5147

Thanks,
Brian Takita

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