Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:40:17 GMT From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % Message-ID: <200504081240.j38CeHaM003453@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR www/79659; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:34:47 -0400 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. -- 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/
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