Hello,

here is my issue: I have installed a apache server 1.3 on a WinNT platform.
I use cgi scripts to dynamically create SVG bar charts which I send to the
client's browser.  When I test it from my computer using the address
http://127.0.0.1/index.html it works fine. But when I test it from another
computer using the following address http://SERVER-IP-ADDRESS/index.html, it
works as long as the request are small bar charts, when I asks for bigger
one, it doesn't work anymore. Instead of the SVG barchart, I get a small
icon in the upper left corner of my browser window and when I click on it, a
pop up with the following message appears:

there is no viewer available for the type of object you are trying to open .
The following information is available about this object:
address of the object:HTTP://3...
content type: unknown
possible location of viewer:microsoft activeX gallery


When I go on the server to see what happened, I see nothing wrong: the
output.svg bar chart corresponding to the request has been created, it is in
the apache/temp folder as it should be and when I double click on it, it
opens itself fine in a browser window.

Eventually, it could be a matter of size: the svg file that won't open are
around 7kB but I dont know where I can set the max size of the files to send
to the clients and anyway 7kB doesnt seem very big to me? It could be a
matter of timeout? the bigger the request is, the more calls to the saxon
xslt processor there will be and the longer it will be to perform the
request, but in all cases it is less than a minute and I checked in the
httpd.conf file, this what I found:

#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
#
Timeout 300


One last thing I noticed but I dont know how to use it to solve my problem:
In the access.log file,  in the case of a request that didnt work, I got the
following line repeated 2 times:

3.249.104.56 - - [20/Aug/2001:11:20:00 +0200] "GET
/cgi-bin/multiFile.cgi?reqType=a&d=01&m=01&y=2001&Parameter=numberOfImages&s
yst=system2&syst=system3&syst=system4&syst=system5&syst=system7&syst=system1
2&syst=system13&syst=system14&syst=system15&submit=GO HTTP/1.0" 200 5468



In the case of a request that worked, I got the following line repeated 3
times:

3.249.104.56 - - [20/Aug/2001:11:21:13 +0200] "GET
/cgi-bin/multiFile.cgi?reqType=a&d=01&m=01&y=2001&Parameter=numberOfImages&s
yst=system4&syst=system5&syst=system7&syst=system12&syst=system13&syst=syste
m14&syst=system15&submit=GO HTTP/1.0" 200 4513

What is the number at the end of the line (5468 and 4513)? It seems to me
that when the number is above 5100 or so it doesnt work and when it's under
it works...is my problem the GET method...


Thanks for your help
Ed

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