From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 14:20:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43BCA16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:20:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037C943D41 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:20:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3AEKL5P082558 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:20:21 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j3AEKLGa082557; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:20:21 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:20:21 GMT Message-Id: <200504101420.j3AEKLGa082557@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org From: "Dan Langille" Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dan Langille List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:20:22 -0000 The following reply was made to PR www/79659; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Dan Langille" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ville_Skytt=E4?=" Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" , 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/