From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 12:38:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126E116A4CE; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:38:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C769943D31; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:38:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0CB3D42; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:38:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Ceri Davies Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:38:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <42564312.16327.7B094F8@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20050408112415.GI19136@submonkey.net> References: <200504081040.j38Ae9V1087785@freefall.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:38:42 -0000 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. Hold on.... why do we see the problem at www.freebsd.org but not on my local (private) cvsweb? I'm running apache-1.3.33_1 -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ NEW brochure available at http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/advocacy/