Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:24:15 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % Message-ID: <20050408112415.GI19136@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <200504081040.j38Ae9V1087785@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200504081040.j38Ae9V1087785@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:40:09AM +0000, 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. It's Apache. From the CHANGES file in Apache 0.8.15: *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson] Googling seems to suggest that this was done because it was deemed forbidden by RFC 2396, which is not the case. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)
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