Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:38:42 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with % Message-ID: <42564312.16327.7B094F8@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050408112415.GI19136@submonkey.net> References: <200504081040.j38Ae9V1087785@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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. 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/
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