www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with %

[Ceri Davies]

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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