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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Aram Mirzadeh <aw...@qosina.com> on 1996/05/17 01:12:05 UTC

WWW Form Bug Report: "SEGV results in proxy use with https" on Linux

Zoom?!  Didn't Zoom ( the modem people ) go out of bussiness? 

Anyway... another one for proxy mod. 

No ack sent.

>Return-Path: nobody@hyperreal.com
>From: spiffnet@zoom.com
>To: awm@qosina.com
>Date: Thu May 16 15:12:15 1996
>Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "SEGV results in proxy use with https" on Linux
>
>Submitter: spiffnet@zoom.com
>Operating system: Linux, version: 1.3.100
>Version of Apache Used: 1.1b2
>Extra Modules used: mod_proxy
>URL exhibiting problem: 
>
>Symptoms:
>--
>When configured for proxy use (as a proxy on a
>firewall) a SEGV violation occurs when proxying
>a URI that does not include a /.
>Netscape uses a 'CONNECT www.host.name:port' with
>SSL (admittedly, not support by the proxy yet)
>and since there are no slashes in the path, it
>segfaults in util.c:ind().
>--
>
>Backtrace:
>--
>The backtrace shows it faulting in ind, but
>this seems to fix it.  Modify mod_mime.c as 
>follows around line 228:
>      return OK;
>}
>if (pn == NULL) pn=r->filename;
>/* Parse filename extensions, which can be in any order */
>--
>
--
Aram W. Mirzadeh, MIS Manager, Qosina Corporation
http://www.qosina.com/~awm/, awm@qosina.com
Apache httpd server team http://www.apache.org