Comments on: Porting a Java Program to PHP

By: aaron brethorst

aaron brethorst — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:43:28 +0000

Thanks! I’ve been running into the same problem, and it’s been driving me nuts!

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:54:50 +0000

Aha! It is a client bug then. In this case the client is

java version "1.5.0_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-112)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-64, mixed mode, sharing)

I'll have to file a bug report on this.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:21:32 +0000

Since you didn’t specify the directory with a trailing slash, the server is sending a 301 Moved Permanently to the client, handing back a URL that ends in a slash. A URL like http://www.elharo.com/fibonacci/XML-RPC doesn’t actually point to a valid location and most servers return the 301 instead of erroring out, the only other option they’re allowed by the spec.

http://www.elharo.com/fibonacci/XML-RPC/ would probably have worked fine, too.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

Note: When automatically redirecting a POST request after
receiving a 301 status code, some existing HTTP/1.0 user agents
will erroneously change it into a GET request.