Re: [Fsfe-uk] UK Govt. OSS Policy v2

[Graham Seaman]

Philip Hunt wrote:

> On Sunday 15 August 2004  1:03 am, Graham Seaman wrote:
>  

> http://open.egov.org.uk/index.php/Government_OSS_policy
> This is a site which I'm trying to build up content on before making it
> live; at the moment
> it's heavily protected by apache basicauth with the cryptic username
> 'guest' and password 'visitor'.  I'd very much appreciate any comments on
> my comments, please feel
> free to edit the wiki in any way you like.
>  
>
>
> I had a go at editting this, I got this error message:
>
> Request-URI Too Large
> The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
>
> request failed: URI too long
>
>
>  
I can't duplicate this. However, looking at the access logs I notice 
that every request from your browser was doubled: first version of the 
request with no authorization, receiving a 401, second
version of the same request with the 'guest' token, getting a 200. But 
the posts of the edited pages
got 401s, being unauthorised, and a second post was never sent - your 
browser then switched
to a get, which failed. What version of which browser were you using?
And could anyone else set my mind at rest by making a change to the site 
(eg. on the 'talk' page
that goes with the policy page (reached from the 'discussion' tab on the 
page menu)? Thank you!

Cheers
Graham