general/3769: Could not serve documents with a set of dots in name

[Klaus Mueller <k....@intershop.de>]

>Number:         3769
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       Could not serve documents with a set of dots in name
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 26 06:10:00 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     k.mueller@intershop.de
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.4
>Environment:
NT4 SP4 engl.
>Description:
I have an apache and an IIS running with the same directory mappings (doc and script).
With apache I can not access a document with the following URL:
http://ntzeus/docus/jws/jws12/com.sun.server.http.pagecompile.sgmlparser.SGMLTagsParserBase.html
Result is a Forbidden (permission error). The files have the same permissions
(Full for everyone).
If I access the same file with the IIS (port 81):
http://ntzeus:81/docus/jws/jws12/com.sun.server.http.pagecompile.sgmlparser.SGMLTagsParserBase.html
I doesn't get an error.

If I rename the file from:
com.sun.server.http.pagecompile.sgmlparser.SGMLTagsParserBase.html
To:
com.html
I can not access it.

But if I rename it to bom.hml it works.

I have 524 files starting with "com."

Other pages work well.
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>Fix:
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