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Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with %
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On 8 Apr 2005 at 12:24, Ceri Davies wrote:

> 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.

Oh...

Apache is unlikely to be changed.  Any filenames within the FreeBSD 
CVS repository that contain a '%' will break FreshPorts.  FreshPorts 
uses cvsweb to fetch the files associated with the commit.

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