Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:20:21 GMT From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % Message-ID: <200504101420.j3AEKLGa082557@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR www/79659; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ville_Skytt=E4?=" <scop@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:18:24 -0400 On 10 Apr 2005 at 0:53, Ville Skytt=E4 wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 06:37 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > Your investigation prompted me to check my local repository which > > uses cvsweb-2.0.6. cvsweb has no problem with that file. I see that > > FreeBSD is using FreeBSD-CVSweb 2.0.6. It has a problem with that > > file. > > > > This suggests that the problem may not be with cvsweb, but with > > something else. The error message: > > > > Bad Request > > Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. > > > > A grep of the repo projects/cvsweb does not find "Bad Request". This > > also suggests it could be something other than cvsweb that is > > displaying this message. > > Indeed. As far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with the markup or > the link generated by cvsweb in this case, so upgrading it to a newer > version wouldn't help. It is valid HTML. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.freebsd.org%2Fcgi%2 Fcvsweb.cgi%2Fports%2Fdevel%2Fgdb6%2Ffiles%2F&charset=3Dutf- 8&doctype=3DInline&verbose=3D1 [also available as http://tinyurl.com/5dbao ] > It's probably generated by a broken/misbehaving proxy somewhere in front > of that cvsweb instance. Responses from that URL contain: "X-Cache: HIT > from localhost, MISS from www.FreeBSD.org". Wherever the proxy server > announcing itself proudly as "localhost" and producing a HIT is, one > might find the problem too. Anyway, even if it wouldn't be the guilty > one, it could be a good idea to configure the proxy software to send a > sane hostname... Interesting.... -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ NEW brochure available at http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/advocacy/
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