www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with %
Ceri Davies
ceri at submonkey.net
Fri Apr 8 04:30:16 PDT 2005
The following reply was made to PR www/79659; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: Dan Langille <dan at langille.org>
Cc: freebsd-www at FreeBSD.org,
FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with %
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:24:15 +0100
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.
Ceri
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