Re: os-sco/1562: BrowserMatch variable cause CGI failure: 'varia

[David J Woolley <dj...@bts.co.uk>]

The following reply was made to PR os-sco/1562; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David J Woolley" <dj...@bts.co.uk>
To: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
Cc: djw@bts.co.uk, Apache bugs database <ap...@apache.org>,
        coar@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: os-sco/1562: BrowserMatch variable cause CGI failure: 'varia
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:07:38 +0100

 > On 16 Dec 1997 coar@hyperreal.org wrote:
 
 > > Hmm.  Would you please reply with the exact BrowserMatch
 > > line from your configuration file?
 > > 
 
 This is the last one I tried on MSIE 4; I cut out one variable 
 because it wasn't documented except in the MSIE 4/ Java workaround 
 and I thought Apache was rejecting it at the time:
 
 BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0" force-response-1.0
 
 I also tried:
 
 BrowserMatch "Lynx" force-response-1.0
 
 > 
 > This is a known problem (thought there was another PR about it... can't
 > find it right now) related to the use of a "-" in a variable name.  Some
 > shells do not accept that.  It needs to be changed in the Apache code.  A
 > temporary workaround would be to use a replacement shell that supports it
 > (eg. bash), however this can only be changed by recompiling Apache with
 > the SHELL_PATH define changed.
 
 This seems sufficient but not necessary.  SCO /bin/sh certainly 
 doesn't parse variables with a - properly, but the error message 
 observed can only be generated by using export, whereas the - would 
 have produced an error on the assignment as well.
 
 
 # fred-1=jim
 fred-1=jim: not found
 # 'fred-1'=jim
 fred-1=jim: not found
 # export fred-1
 fred-1: is not an identifier
 # export fred
 # fred-1=jim /bin/echo
 fred-1=jim: not found
 # export fred-1=jim
 fred-1=jim: is not an identifier
 # fred=jim
 #
  
 
 As I indicated in the original report, marketing considerations that 
 are outside the hands of a mere programmer, mean that the system sold 
 will use SCO Fast Start and its included Netscape; I was using Apache 
 for testing on the older SCO we had in this office, although 
 personally I see no technical advantage in Netscape (the application 
 is so CGI intensive that threads offer no advantage).  As such, I can 
 work round by configuring MSIE not to use HTTP 1.1.
 
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