From owner-freebsd-apache@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 06:47:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-apache@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-apache@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C8F16A400 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:47:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from swift.swiftnames.com (swift.swiftnames.com [205.214.82.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D20743D45 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:47:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from [81.98.162.114] (helo=[192.168.1.101]) by swift.swiftnames.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.44) id 1FYdne-00055o-Ij for freebsd-apache@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:46:58 -0600 From: Ben Paley To: FreeBSD Apache Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:46:34 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604260646.39469.ben@spooty.net> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - swift.swiftnames.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spooty.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: file corruption X-BeenThere: freebsd-apache@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Support of apache-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:47:07 -0000 Hello, This is more or less a copy of a message I sent to questions@ - someone kindly advised me to try here. I have apache-2.0.55_4 running on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a laptop on a small office lan. Whenever one of the other machines (mostly Macs) makes a request for a certain page on my machine, it is delivered succesfully but the file itself is absolutely scrambled beyond recognition into a binary file. Subsequent requests rescramble it into a different but equally nonsense binary. I've looked with a binary editor and it really is completely messed up. I can restore the file from a good archive copy, but every time the same thing happens. The file was originally created on a mac by Flash (it's a 1.1k html file which just embeds a flash movie). Recently I copied it to and from a Solaris box via ftp from an Windows NT machine (although it wasn't opened afaik - a long story, clearly, which also involves a usb flash drive...). Since I posted originally to questions@ I have noticed some other strange corruptions, for instance a file which was fine on my machine but became a binary (although it looked ok) after ftp onto a remote machine. This happened with 2 different gui clients and the command line, and happened in ascii, binary or auto mode. If this is related, it seems to absolve apache... but I'm not sure it is. Anyone have any ideas? The file itself is inconsequential, but I'm very worried lest it should start elsewhere. Cheers, Ben