[Potlatch-dev] [OT?] problem with serving potlatch2.swf on XP

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
> This will probably be browser specific -- flash uses the browser to
> request further URLs. I think the debug player may do something
> different, and probably broken.

Thanks, I'm investigating Flash settings now. For a while I suspected
the cache, but I've cleared it (the Flash one, that is). Now here's
something I find really puzzling in the server logs (both HFS and
nginx):

...
127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2010:08:39:37 +1100] "GET
/resources/features/pois/barrier_cattle_grid.24.png HTTP/1.1" 404 571
"http://localhost:8081/resources/potlatch2.swf?d=484" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3"
127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2010:08:39:37 +1100] "GET
/resources/features/pois/barrier_stile.n.24.png HTTP/1.1" 404 571
"http://localhost:8081/resources/potlatch2.swf?d=484" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3"
127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2010:08:39:37 +1100] "GET
/resources/icons/power_blank.png HTTP/1.1" 404 571
"http://localhost:8081/resources/potlatch2.swf?d=484" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3"
127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2010:08:39:37 +1100] "POST
/resources/imagery.xml HTTP/1.1" 405 575
"http://localhost:8081/resources/potlatch2.swf?d=484" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3"
127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2010:08:39:37 +1100] "POST
/resources/stylesheets.xml HTTP/1.1" 405 575
"http://localhost:8081/resources/potlatch2.swf?d=484" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3"
127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2010:08:39:38 +1100] "POST
/resources/features/pois/shopping_confectionery.n.24.png HTTP/1.1" 404
571 "http://localhost:8081/resources/potlatch2.swf?d=484" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3"
...

Trimmed, that reads:
...
"GET /resources/features/pois/barrier_cattle_grid.24.png HTTP/1.1"
"GET /resources/features/pois/barrier_stile.n.24.png HTTP/1.1"
"GET /resources/icons/power_blank.png HTTP/1.1"
"POST /resources/imagery.xml HTTP/1.1"
"POST /resources/stylesheets.xml HTTP/1.1"
"POST /resources/features/pois/shopping_confectionery.n.24.png HTTP/1.1"
...

Why on earth are POST requests being made? Not surprisingly, none of
the icons that are associated with POST requests succeed in getting
displayed. However that's not the full story, as there are GET
requests for icons that don't display, and there are also icons that
display with neither a GET nor a POST request (apparently cached).

I'm really quite confused by the POST/GET story - could someone explain?

Steve