From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 23 3:32:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8DA737B400 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4717 invoked by uid 417); 23 Jun 2002 10:31:03 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 23 Jun 2002 10:31:03 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.4.199]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:31:02 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:28:30 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Terry Lambert Cc: root@utility.clubscholarship.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inuring FreeBSD to the apache bug without upgrading apache ? Message-Id: <20020623062830.6137cdfc.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <3D158F8C.8AA61132@mindspring.com> References: <20020620141424.U68572-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> <3D129688.356A87D0@mindspring.com> <20020623003014.1575c491.yid@softhome.net> <3D158F8C.8AA61132@mindspring.com> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:06:20 -0700 Terry Lambert wrote: > Joshua Lee wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > The way you would deal with this would be to tell Apache that it > > > was an HTTP 1.0 server, since chunking is an HTTP 1.1 feature. > > > > I've found a better solution! On today's freshports there is something > > called mod_blowchunks :-) If installed, it will reject chunking and log > > it. This is an alternative to upgrading Apache. > > But if a client uses chunking legitimately, and does so becuase > it believes it's talking to an HTTP server, you've just broken > that client's ability to POST/PUT. You mean to say "it believes it is talking to an HTTP 1.1 server", yes? I guess using HTTP 1.0 is a better solution then. Of course, maybe the *best* solution IMVHO would be to upgrade to the Apache version without this bug. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message