From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 11:30:16 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 55F1716A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:30:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3796E43D2D for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:30:16 +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 j38BUG0l093244 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:30:16 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j38BUFGm093243; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:30:16 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:30:16 GMT Message-Id: <200504081130.j38BUFGm093243@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org From: Ceri Davies Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ceri Davies List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:30:16 -0000 The following reply was made to PR www/79659; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ceri Davies To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Gnats Submit Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:24:15 +0100 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.)