[Mailman-Users] Approving often fails and displays wrong page

[Peter Shute]

It’s happening to multiple moderators on multiple devices with independent internet connections, so it sounds like we need to ask our server provider to look into it.

Thanks,
Peter Shute

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> On 12 Mar 2018, at 12:58 pm, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/11/2018 10:03 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
>>> On 3/10/2018 11:58 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
>>> We’ve found recently that more often than not when we approve a message
>>> from its details view, after we click Submit, it goes to another page
>>> that’s not part of mailman. It goes to the root of our cpanel, ie same
>>> url minus the/mailman/... part, but displays the correct url in the
>>> address bar. We can reliably approve messages from the summary page.
>> 
>> Sounds sort of like a rogue load balancer, caching system, or some kind
>> of URL rewrite filter in the way.
> 
> 
> I agree with Carl. I have no idea what the actual issue is, but given
> that the result has something like
> http://example.com/mailman/admindb/list_example.com in the address bar
> but the content displayed is as if the browser had done a 'GET /' would
> seem to say either the browser is broken - very unlikely and easily
> confirmed by trying a different browser - or something between the
> browser and the ultimate web server is the cause.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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