www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with %
Dan Langille
dan at langille.org
Sun Apr 10 07:20:22 PDT 2005
The following reply was made to PR www/79659; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>
To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ville_Skytt=E4?=" <scop at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>,
FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with %
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:18:24 -0400
On 10 Apr 2005 at 0:53, Ville Skytt=E4 wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 06:37 -0400, 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.
>
> Indeed. As far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with the markup or
> the link generated by cvsweb in this case, so upgrading it to a newer
> version wouldn't help.
It is valid HTML.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.freebsd.org%2Fcgi%2
Fcvsweb.cgi%2Fports%2Fdevel%2Fgdb6%2Ffiles%2F&charset=3Dutf-
8&doctype=3DInline&verbose=3D1
[also available as http://tinyurl.com/5dbao ]
> It's probably generated by a broken/misbehaving proxy somewhere in front
> of that cvsweb instance. Responses from that URL contain: "X-Cache: HIT
> from localhost, MISS from www.FreeBSD.org". Wherever the proxy server
> announcing itself proudly as "localhost" and producing a HIT is, one
> might find the problem too. Anyway, even if it wouldn't be the guilty
> one, it could be a good idea to configure the proxy software to send a
> sane hostname...
Interesting....
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