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Strange "problem" with refreshes

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list Scott Wilson · Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:09:04 -0500 (CDT) ·
Problem is a bit of a strong word, but it is annoying.


I'm in the process of switching from and old Big Brother server to a Hobbit server.  All in all, Hobbit is far and away better.  But there is one nagging difference.

When I scroll down in a web page on my Big Brother server, and then reload (either the auto reload, or manually reloading) my web browser stays at the same position.  With Hobbit, all reloads start me back up on the top of the page.

This is particularly annoying if I scroll down and I'm looking at a specific host.  When the automatic reload happens, I'm bumped up to the top and have to scroll down again.


I've tried playing around with the header and removing things that were different from my Big Brother headers, and it didn't matter.  I also doublechecked that there was nothing odd in my Apache config... and I couldn't find anything.

Does anyone have any ideas what is up with this?  Or is it simply something I'll have to live with to use the otherwise superior Hobbit?
I've tried searching both this archive and Google, and I haven't come up with anything.

Thanks!

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol
list Josh Luthman · Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:31:36 -0400 ·
I believe you are saying when the page is updated and it refreshes the view
of the page on you browser is forced to the very top.

This is likely a browser issue.  The content is always the same went
requested with an HTTP GET so the only variable here is the browser.

Have you tried Firefox/Opera/IE and in what combination?

Josh
quoted from Scott Wilson

On 10/25/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Problem is a bit of a strong word, but it is annoying.


I'm in the process of switching from and old Big Brother server to a
Hobbit server.  All in all, Hobbit is far and away better.  But there is
one nagging difference.

When I scroll down in a web page on my Big Brother server, and then reload
(either the auto reload, or manually reloading) my web browser stays at
the same position.  With Hobbit, all reloads start me back up on the top
of the page.

This is particularly annoying if I scroll down and I'm looking at a
specific host.  When the automatic reload happens, I'm bumped up to the
top and have to scroll down again.


I've tried playing around with the header and removing things that were
different from my Big Brother headers, and it didn't matter.  I also
doublechecked that there was nothing odd in my Apache config... and I
couldn't find anything.

Does anyone have any ideas what is up with this?  Or is it simply
something I'll have to live with to use the otherwise superior Hobbit?
I've tried searching both this archive and Google, and I haven't come up
with anything.

Thanks!

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

-- 

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Dave Haertig · Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:11:06 -0600 ·
I'm guessing that this has to do with cached vs. non-cached content, or
broweser/proxy mishandling of said content.  Many things come into play.
If you're not running Hobbit on the same webserver as BB, then there
could be Apache config differences.  Are you going through a proxy?
Those might cache too.  You browser caches as well.  Different browsers
do it differently.  Are you looking at an .html page (static, may be
cached) or a CGI page (shouldn't be cached, but I've seen proxies do it
non-the-less).  Even Hobbit itself could come into play (theoretically,
but I haven't looked at the source).  Hobbit might be sending out
different metadata, pragmas, etc. in the HTML it generates that is
causing your refresh differences from the way BB generated the HTML.

You refresh is coming from the following which you'll find in Hobbit
HTML on some pages (not all):

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="60">

I do not know if you can reconfigure Hobbit to omit that.  Or, you can
use something like Proxomitron (a local proxy) to dynamically remove the
meta-refreshes from the source as your browser downloads it.  But theses
methods would take out all your refreshes - even when you might want
them.

I used to have much more trouble with BB jumping around on refreshes
than I have with Hobbit now.  But I have so many different things in my
setup that I couldn't even compare (different browser, different local
OS, different server OS, different version of Apache - you name it!)
quoted from Scott Wilson

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:09 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


Problem is a bit of a strong word, but it is annoying.


I'm in the process of switching from and old Big Brother server to a
Hobbit server.  All in all, Hobbit is far and away better.  But there is
one nagging difference.

When I scroll down in a web page on my Big Brother server, and then
reload (either the auto reload, or manually reloading) my web browser
stays at the same position.  With Hobbit, all reloads start me back up
on the top of the page.

This is particularly annoying if I scroll down and I'm looking at a
specific host.  When the automatic reload happens, I'm bumped up to the
top and have to scroll down again.


I've tried playing around with the header and removing things that were
different from my Big Brother headers, and it didn't matter.  I also
doublechecked that there was nothing odd in my Apache config... and I
couldn't find anything.

Does anyone have any ideas what is up with this?  Or is it simply
something I'll have to live with to use the otherwise superior Hobbit?
I've tried searching both this archive and Google, and I haven't come up
with anything.

Thanks!

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:01:50 +0200 ·
quoted from Scott Wilson
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:09:04PM -0500, Scott Wilson wrote:
When I scroll down in a web page on my Big Brother server, and then reload (either the auto reload, or manually reloading) my web browser stays at the same position.  With Hobbit, all reloads start me back up on the top of the page.
I don't really see how this can be different from BB to Hobbit. It's
purely a browser issue; IE will jump to the top, whereas Firefox stays
on the same position on the page.

Is your BB installation a "pure" BB setup, or have you added the "bbgen"
tools on top of it ?
I've tried playing around with the header and removing things that were different from my Big Brother headers, and it didn't matter.  I also doublechecked that there was nothing odd in my Apache config... and I couldn't find anything.
If it doesn't happen with your BB webpages, what do the URL's up in the
adress bar look like?  Do they have a trailing "...#HOSTNAME" at the end?


Regards,
Henrik
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:02:39 +0200 ·
quoted from Dave Haertig
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:11:06PM -0600, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
You refresh is coming from the following which you'll find in Hobbit
HTML on some pages (not all):

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="60">

I do not know if you can reconfigure Hobbit to omit that.
You can, it's in the ~hobbit/server/web/*_header files.


Henrik
list Scott Wilson · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:48:35 -0500 (CDT) ·
I use Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Linux.

While it may be related, it isn't entirely a browser issue, as 
using the same browser (just a different tab) works fine with my Big 
Brother server.

What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the top upon 
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
quoted from Dave Haertig


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I believe you are saying when the page is updated and it refreshes the view
of the page on you browser is forced to the very top.

This is likely a browser issue.  The content is always the same went
requested with an HTTP GET so the only variable here is the browser.

Have you tried Firefox/Opera/IE and in what combination?

Josh

On 10/25/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Problem is a bit of a strong word, but it is annoying.


I'm in the process of switching from and old Big Brother server to a
Hobbit server.  All in all, Hobbit is far and away better.  But there is
one nagging difference.

When I scroll down in a web page on my Big Brother server, and then reload
(either the auto reload, or manually reloading) my web browser stays at
the same position.  With Hobbit, all reloads start me back up on the top
of the page.

This is particularly annoying if I scroll down and I'm looking at a
specific host.  When the automatic reload happens, I'm bumped up to the
top and have to scroll down again.


I've tried playing around with the header and removing things that were
different from my Big Brother headers, and it didn't matter.  I also
doublechecked that there was nothing odd in my Apache config... and I
couldn't find anything.

Does anyone have any ideas what is up with this?  Or is it simply
something I'll have to live with to use the otherwise superior Hobbit?
I've tried searching both this archive and Google, and I haven't come up
with anything.

Thanks!

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Greg L Hubbard · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:06:32 -0500 ·
Does Big Brother have a JavaScript menu?  That might make a difference. 
quoted from Scott Wilson

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:49 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


I use Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Linux.

While it may be related, it isn't entirely a browser issue, as using the
same browser (just a different tab) works fine with my Big Brother
server.

What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the top
upon refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I believe you are saying when the page is updated and it refreshes the
view
of the page on you browser is forced to the very top.

This is likely a browser issue.  The content is always the same went
requested with an HTTP GET so the only variable here is the browser.

Have you tried Firefox/Opera/IE and in what combination?

Josh

On 10/25/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Problem is a bit of a strong word, but it is annoying.


I'm in the process of switching from and old Big Brother server to a
Hobbit server.  All in all, Hobbit is far and away better.  But there
is
one nagging difference.

When I scroll down in a web page on my Big Brother server, and then
reload
(either the auto reload, or manually reloading) my web browser stays
at
the same position.  With Hobbit, all reloads start me back up on the
top
of the page.

This is particularly annoying if I scroll down and I'm looking at a
specific host.  When the automatic reload happens, I'm bumped up to
the
top and have to scroll down again.


I've tried playing around with the header and removing things that
were
different from my Big Brother headers, and it didn't matter.  I also
doublechecked that there was nothing odd in my Apache config... and I
couldn't find anything.

Does anyone have any ideas what is up with this?  Or is it simply
something I'll have to live with to use the otherwise superior
Hobbit?
I've tried searching both this archive and Google, and I haven't come
up
with anything.

Thanks!

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Hobbit User · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:09:22 -0400 (EDT) ·
quoted from Scott Wilson
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the top upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos
list Josh Luthman · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:23:05 -0400 ·
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only page long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
quoted from Hobbit User

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Scott Wilson · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:57:14 -0500 (CDT) ·
Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it definitely isn't 
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my Apache. 
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to a 
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have something 
to poke at now....
quoted from Josh Luthman


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only page long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Josh Luthman · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:47:48 -0400 ·
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5 (which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my ideas stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to know the
resolution to this.

Josh
quoted from Scott Wilson

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it definitely isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only page long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
quoted from Scott Wilson
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Scott Wilson · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:34:30 -0500 (CDT) ·

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages, refreshes 
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I had 
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas point to 
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran into 
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!
quoted from Josh Luthman


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5 (which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my ideas stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to know the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it definitely isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only page long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Josh Luthman · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:38:12 -0400 ·
So you're telling us that the only variable you changed was SSL and it
worked perfectly?

Very odd...
quoted from Scott Wilson

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages, refreshes
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I had
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas point to
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran into
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5
(which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do
something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my ideas
stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to know
the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it definitely
isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have
something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only page
long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the
top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Scott Wilson · Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:53:54 -0500 (CDT) ·
Yup, it seems to be a fundamental property of how Firefox handles 
refreshes.  If you refresh a SSL page, it bounces to the top.  A non-SSL 
page stays where it is.

I've tried it with other web pages, and they all function that way.
quoted from Josh Luthman


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
So you're telling us that the only variable you changed was SSL and it
worked perfectly?

Very odd...

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages, refreshes
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I had
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas point to
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran into
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5
(which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do
something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my ideas
stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to know
the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it definitely
isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have
something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only page
long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to the
top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Tod Hansmann · Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:29 -0600 ·
We use SSL exclusively with ours and it maintains its position.  I'm
thinking this would be in your apache configs somewhere.  Have you asked
an Apache list about this?  

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
quoted from Scott Wilson
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:54 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


Yup, it seems to be a fundamental property of how Firefox handles 
refreshes.  If you refresh a SSL page, it bounces to the top.  A non-SSL

page stays where it is.

I've tried it with other web pages, and they all function that way.


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
So you're telling us that the only variable you changed was SSL and it
worked perfectly?

Very odd...

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages,
refreshes
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I
had
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas point
to
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran
into
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5
(which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do
something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my
ideas
stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to
know
the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it
definitely
isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my
Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to
a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have
something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only
page
long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to
the
top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Josh Luthman · Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:23:00 -0400 ·
I have an acquaintance that runs Big Brother 3.1 or 3.2 with Apache and
OpenSSL of which does NOT maintain position.  You're not the only one!

Tod, would you be willing to share some of your httpd.conf?
quoted from Tod Hansmann

On 10/29/07, Tod Hansmann <user-b6e28cb93fa4@xymon.invalid> wrote:
We use SSL exclusively with ours and it maintains its position.  I'm
thinking this would be in your apache configs somewhere.  Have you asked
an Apache list about this?

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:54 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


Yup, it seems to be a fundamental property of how Firefox handles
refreshes.  If you refresh a SSL page, it bounces to the top.  A non-SSL

page stays where it is.

I've tried it with other web pages, and they all function that way.


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
So you're telling us that the only variable you changed was SSL and it
worked perfectly?

Very odd...

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages,
refreshes
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I
had
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas point
to
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran
into
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5
(which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do
something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my
ideas
stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to
know
the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it
definitely
isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my
Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to
a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have
something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only
page
long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to
the
top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Scott Wilson · Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:25:11 -0500 (CDT) ·
What web browser do you use?  Since I tried it with meany sites (not all 
apache) and had the same behavior, I think the "ssl pages jump to top on 
refresh" is more likely to be a browser based issue.
quoted from Josh Luthman

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Tod Hansmann wrote:
We use SSL exclusively with ours and it maintains its position.  I'm
thinking this would be in your apache configs somewhere.  Have you asked
an Apache list about this?

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:54 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


Yup, it seems to be a fundamental property of how Firefox handles
refreshes.  If you refresh a SSL page, it bounces to the top.  A non-SSL

page stays where it is.

I've tried it with other web pages, and they all function that way.


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
So you're telling us that the only variable you changed was SSL and it
worked perfectly?

Very odd...

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages,
refreshes
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I
had
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas point
to
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran
into
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5
(which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do
something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my
ideas
stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to
know
the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it
definitely
isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my
Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to
a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have
something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only
page
long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to
the
top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Josh Luthman · Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:38:11 -0400 ·
Something like...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008
Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/29/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

What web browser do you use?  Since I tried it with meany sites (not all
apache) and had the same behavior, I think the "ssl pages jump to top on
refresh" is more likely to be a browser based issue.

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Tod Hansmann wrote:
We use SSL exclusively with ours and it maintains its position.  I'm
thinking this would be in your apache configs somewhere.  Have you asked
an Apache list about this?

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:54 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


Yup, it seems to be a fundamental property of how Firefox handles
refreshes.  If you refresh a SSL page, it bounces to the top.  A non-SSL

page stays where it is.

I've tried it with other web pages, and they all function that way.


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
So you're telling us that the only variable you changed was SSL and it
worked perfectly?

Very odd...

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages,
refreshes
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I
had
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas point
to
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran
into
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS 5
(which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do
something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my
ideas
stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to
know
the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it
definitely
isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my
Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to
a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have
something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only
page
long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to
the
top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
--
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
list Tod Hansmann · Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:21:19 -0600 ·
Some of use IE6, others Firefox, others IE7.  I haven't verified with
everyone, but several people I /have/ asked all maintain position.  I
myself see it maintain position in both IE6 and Firefox 2.0.0.8

Some pieces of our apache config I thought were relevant:


SSLSessionCache         shmcb:/var/lib/apache2/ssl_scache


NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443
Listen 443

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin user-220aee41b4ef@xymon.invalid
        DocumentRoot /path/to/root
        ServerName our.webaddress.com
        RedirectMatch permanent (/.*) https://our.webaddress.com //$1
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin user-220aee41b4ef@xymon.invalid
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs
        ServerName monitor.directpointe.net
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/monitor.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl.key/monitorssl.key


</VirtualHost>

# This file is for Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0.x
#
# Add this to your Apache configuration, it makes
# the Hobbit webpages and cgi-scripts available in the
# "/monitor" and "/monitor-cgi" URLs.


# NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have
#     the Hobbit webfiles as the root URL. In that case,
#     you should instead set this:
#
#          DocumentRoot /home/hobbit/server/www


<Directory "/srv/www/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    SSLRequireSSL

    AuthUserFile /path/to/hobbitpasswd
    AuthGroupFile /path/to/hobbitgroups
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "monitor"

    Require user user1 user2

</Directory>
Alias /monitor/  "/home/hobbit/server/www/"
<Directory "/home/hobbit/server/www">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    SSLRequireSSL

    AuthUserFile /path/to/hobbitpasswd
    AuthGroupFile /path/to/hobbitgroups
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "monitor"

    Require user user1 user2

</Directory>


I can't see anything about caching, which I think would be more relevant
to the discussion.  Then again, I'm no apache admin guru.
quoted from Josh Luthman


Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:25 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


What web browser do you use?  Since I tried it with meany sites (not all

apache) and had the same behavior, I think the "ssl pages jump to top on

refresh" is more likely to be a browser based issue.

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Tod Hansmann wrote:
We use SSL exclusively with ours and it maintains its position.  I'm
thinking this would be in your apache configs somewhere.  Have you
asked
an Apache list about this?

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:54 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Strange "problem" with refreshes


Yup, it seems to be a fundamental property of how Firefox handles
refreshes.  If you refresh a SSL page, it bounces to the top.  A
non-SSL

page stays where it is.

I've tried it with other web pages, and they all function that way.


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
So you're telling us that the only variable you changed was SSL and
it
worked perfectly?

Very odd...

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I found the answer.  It's pretty simple really...

I was using SSL with my hobbit server.  With SSL'ed web pages,
refreshes
force you back to the top of the page.  NonSSL'ed web pages (which I
had
totally disabled) work fine.

Now I just need to hack up the header files so the secure areas
point
to
SSL even when I'm looking at the nonSSL pages.  But as I already ran
into
the header files while debugging this, that should be trivial.

Thanks for the help!


Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
I am using this for an Apache server:

Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built:   Jun 26 2007 19:26:32

Latest and greatest package from the default repo's.  Using CentOS
5
(which
is RHEL based).

I honestly have no idea how the page stays position.  It has to do
something
along the lines of cache, but that is a client side thing so...my
ideas
stop
here =(

Please let us know what you come up with.  I know I would like to
know
the
resolution to this.

Josh

On 10/26/07, Scott Wilson <user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Brilliant thought....

The demo does maintain position exactly as I want.  So it
definitely
isn't
hobbit in general.  My best guess now is it somehow lies in my
Apache.
That's just RedHat's stock Apache 2.0.52, but it may be related to
a
module (I shutoff the mods I wasn't using).... at least I have
something
to poke at now....


Thanks,

Scott Wilson                    Lead System Administrator
user-999746b4662e@xymon.invalid            NSIT - DCS - SeaSol

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Josh Luthman wrote:
Troubleshooting technique!

Use the Hobbitmon demo on the project page.  This was the only
page
long
enough (for me - 1680x1050 resolution) for me to scroll down and
maintain my
position.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/services/services.html

Does this maintain position for you, Scott?

My client: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.8)
Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

On 10/26/07, Hobbit User <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, October 26, 2007 11:48, Scott Wilson wrote:
What is the behavior for others?  Do others not get forced to
the
top
upon
refresh.  (Automatic or manual has the same behavior.)
Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Centos EL5 maintains position on refresh.

Help-->About Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:
1.8.0.12)
Gecko/20070719 CentOS/1.5.0.12-3.el5.centos

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