From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 14:24:33 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 E1D4016A4CE; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9870D43D31; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:24:33 +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 1D6D03D42; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Ceri Davies Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:24:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <42565BE1.20699.8117F07@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20050408141342.GL19136@submonkey.net> References: <20050408135829.GK19136@submonkey.net> 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 14:24:34 -0000 On 8 Apr 2005 at 15:13, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:58:29PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:38:42AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Because you are not using mod_rewrite. > > Check it out; with mod_rewrite the % needs escaping twice: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%2525nm-fbsd64.h Oh good! So this is a cvsweb bug. Thank you. Note: escaping the % twice on my system gives: Error: ports/devel/gdb6/files/patch-i386%25nm-fbsd64.h: no such file or directory So any fix must check for mod_rewrite. -- 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/