Re: mod_proxy/763: Apache dies with a segfault when attempting to proxy through

[Lars Eilebrecht <La...@unix-ag.org>]

The following reply was made to PR mod_proxy/763; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lars Eilebrecht <La...@unix-ag.org>
To: apbugs@apache.org
Subject: Re: mod_proxy/763: Apache dies with a segfault when attempting  to proxy through
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:43:00 +0200 (CEST)

 
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 To: Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org
 From: Zachary Amsden <am...@aavid.com>
 Subject: Re: mod_proxy/763: Apache dies with a segfault when attempting
   to proxy through
 
 At 05:39 AM 8/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
 >Synopsis: Apache dies with a segfault when attempting to proxy through
 >
 >State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
 >State-Changed-By: Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org
 >State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 10 05:39:41 PDT 1997
 >State-Changed-Why:
 >
 >Sorry, this problem report was unanswered for a long time.
 >
 >Does the problem still exists with the current
 >version?
 >
 
 I don't know.  This problem was a result of an overflow in the hash
 calculation
 of the cache filename.  The problem could be fixed fairly easily by
 calculating
 all of the hash characters first, then using a separate function to convert
 into
 a file/path name.
 
 Zachary Amsden
 amsden@andrew.cmu.edu
 
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