Passing Browser arguments to PHP

fhd

Remotely I am unable to pass the following browser call from any remote client site using either Netscape or IExplorer to a PHP code section. The server IP number is dymanically assigned at the moment.

However using Mozilla on the server itself, this works. So the PHP code itself seems OK but only when generated on a browser on the server and not remotely.

http://XX.XX.XX.XX/searchpat.php?last_name=doofus

Error says :
Bad Request: Error 400, your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand.

Using as server vanilla RedHat linux 9.0 as provided (PHP4, Mysql 3). For now I am using dynamic IP assignment.

Am trying to search a older DB that I am porting over to a new machine.

Must be some initialization lapse on my part in php.ini or httpd.conf but I cannot seem to find what prevents this call from working remotely. Oh yes, the command works OK without any argument (omit ?last_name=doofus) but, or course, results in an expected PHP code error about a missing arguement.

Hope the question is appropriate for this group. I am a self taught newbie by the way.

Thanks

Frank

drag0n

is "last_name" including that underscope ot just a space?
That error does not seem to be something wrong with your scripts, but more of somethign wrong with the name of the url or webserver.
By the way, are you skilled at all in Linux? Exim, Qmail, Postfix, Proftpd, Bind, Apache etc?

fhd

last_name is the variable name.

Using Mozilla on the server itself
the call:
http://XX.XX.XX.XX/searchpat.php?last_name=doofus
where XXetc. is dynamically assigned or
http://localhost/searchpat.php?last_name=doofus
works fine.

Remotely
http://XX.XX.XX.XX/searchpat.php?last_name=doofus
fails but
http://XX.XX.XX.XX/searchpat.php
works (without the argument being passed of course.

So what causes "?last_name=doofus" to invoke a server error?

What about php or httpd is not setup right?

Am not a professional but a goal oriented amateur. Success is but a manual or how-to away BUT there are so many. Any help would be grateful. I am pretty good with Linux and Apache and C and PHP. The problem may be my temporary use of dynamic IP assignment so am in the process of getting another static address.

Frank