MHo, 2007-10-23
Here are some observations I made while I restarted an old project: porting an old tclhttpd 3.4.x-site to the latest incarnations of that webserver, 3.5.1 or 3.5.2.
I use my old build of that webserver, see Tclhttpd Winservice for further information.
The problem
I noticed that if I did not specify the file extension with an URL (like .htm or .tml), sometimes excessive delays occur. The resulting page appears in the browser, if ever, only after a very long delay period. Though I discover part of the program flow and learned that such page requests are satisfied via an error which was further handled by url_rewind and so on, I couldn't find any error.
But there are two facts:
* This error didn't occur with 3.4x-versions of the webserver. * The logic has been largely rewritten between 3.4x and 3.5x (the monolythic doc.tcl splits up to doc.tcl, fallback.tcl., etc.).
Today, I found out that under the absolutely same circumstances my whole tests run fine with Opera. (I also tested IE7 but it failed for other reasions, as usual....). That