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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Paul Richards <pa...@alpha.netcraft.co.uk> on 1995/10/17 14:51:03 UTC
Dave Cornejo: captured something (fwd)
Does this help anyone.
In reply to Justin T. Gibbs who said
> From gibbs@aslan.cdrom.com Tue Oct 17 02:01:36 1995
> Message-Id: <19...@aslan.cdrom.com>
> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol
> To: paul@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Dave Cornejo: captured something
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 18:01:17 -0700
> From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gi...@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
>
> This may be our bug.
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> From: Dave Cornejo <da...@dogwood.com>
> Message-Id: <19...@white.dogwood.com>
> Subject: captured something
> To: gibbs@cdrom.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 17:58:51 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: web-people@cdrom.com
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
> Content-Type: text
>
> I got real lucky I think - I got a corruption on a 958 byte file. It
> looks like somehow something meant for someone else got appended to
> the end of what I was getting. I also managed to capture these
> transactions with tcpdump.
>
> - --- begin good transfer ---
> <HTML>
> <HEADER>
> <TITLE>Walnut Creek CDROM TeX Mirror</TITLE>
> </HEADER>
>
> <BODY>
> [deleted stuff here]
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> - --- end good transfer ---
>
> - --- begin bad transfer ---
> <HTML>
> <HEADER>
> <TITLE>Walnut Creek CDROM TeX Mirror</TITLE>
> </HEADER>
>
> <BODY>
> [deleted stuff here]
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>File Not found</TITLE></HEAD>
> <BODY><H1>File Not found</H1>
> The requested URL /pub/tex/;bytes=190- was not found on this server.<P>
> </BODY>
>
> - --- end bad transfer ---
>
> As you can see, there is something tacked on to the end. The file is
> /pub/tex/index.html - so it's interesting that the crud mentions
> /pub/tex.
>
> The browser in use was Netscape 2.0 on a NetBSD 1.0 kernel.
>
> If you want I can put copies of the file that I received as well as
> the captures someplace ftp'able (I have both good and bad transfers).
>
> - - dave
>
> - --
> Dave Cornejo There is nothing so subtle
> Dogwood Media as the obvious
> Fremont, California
>
> ------- End of Forwarded Message
>
>
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Re: Dave Cornejo: captured something (fwd)
Posted by Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>.
On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Mark J Cox wrote:
> > > The requested URL /pub/tex/;bytes=190- was not found on this server.<P>
>
> On a hunch I just looked through telescope.org's transfer log:
>
> somewhere.com - - [16/Oct/1995:21:04:26 +0100] "GET /gfx/login.gif;bytes=7- HTTP/1.0" 404 803
> somewhere.com - - [16/Oct/1995:21:15:07 +0100] "GET /gfx/bar-name.gif;bytes=245- HTTP/1.0" 404 816
>
> I'm getting lots and lots of these each day. Looks like some browser is
> trying to use byte ranges (incorrectly) to get the end of partial
> transfers; Ouch!
Shit, I've gotten tons of them today.
I'm so angry I could scream. Seriously, I wish netscape would put a
*little* more thought into designing these things! The byterange
proposal is one I've argued against on http-wg, but who listens to me...
Brian
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Re: Dave Cornejo: captured something (fwd)
Posted by Mark J Cox <M....@bradford.ac.uk>.
> > The requested URL /pub/tex/;bytes=190- was not found on this server.<P>
On a hunch I just looked through telescope.org's transfer log:
somewhere.com - - [16/Oct/1995:21:04:26 +0100] "GET /gfx/login.gif;bytes=7- HTTP/1.0" 404 803
somewhere.com - - [16/Oct/1995:21:15:07 +0100] "GET /gfx/bar-name.gif;bytes=245- HTTP/1.0" 404 816
I'm getting lots and lots of these each day. Looks like some browser is
trying to use byte ranges (incorrectly) to get the end of partial
transfers; Ouch!
Mark
Mark J Cox, mark@telescope.org -- URL:http://www.telescope.org/mark.html
University of Bradford, England ---------- tel +44.1274.384070/fax 391333