www/79659: cvsweb cannot cope with %

[Dan Langille]

The following reply was made to PR www/79659; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>
To: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
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, 08 Apr 2005 08:34:47 -0400

 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.
 
 Oh...
 
 Apache is unlikely to be changed.  Any filenames within the FreeBSD 
 CVS repository that contain a '%' will break FreshPorts.  FreshPorts 
 uses cvsweb to fetch the files associated with the commit.
 
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