Re: Changed information for PR suexec/479

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

There are definately special cases for = in the code... but I'm not going
to pretend to know why they're there.  Anyone else? 

Dean

On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Mark A. Bentley wrote:

> 
> Hmmm, interesting... suEXEC isn't logging an error now, instead
> the server is returning this error:
> 
>    500 Internal Server Error
> 
> And my error log says "premature end of script headers".
> 
> It seems the only time this bug shows itself is when the
> query string doesn't consist of name=value, but rather 
> just a name, like this:
> 
>    http://www.cs.umn.edu/~amundson/haha.cgi?test
> 
> If I say ...
> 
>     /haha.cgi?test=          I don't get that error.
>     /haha.cgi?test=something I don't get that error either.
> 
> I'm not sure what the spec says about the query string, but I
> think it is legal to pass a string that isn't a name/value pair, 
> right?
> 
> Well, I hope this helps.   By the way, you guys are doing a great job!
> 
>    --Mark
> 
> On Sun, 27 Apr 1997 dgaudet@hyperreal.com wrote:
> 
> > Synopsis: mod_cgi passing foobared username argument to suEXEC
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> > State-Changed-By: dgaudet
> > State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 27 14:15:44 PDT 1997
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > I'd wager this too was fixed by 1.2b9... which is in the usual
> > places.  Could you tell us if it does fix the problem?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Dean
> > 
> 
> 
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> Mark A Bentley			Email:	bentlema@cs.umn.edu
> Systems Staff, CSci Dept
> University of Minnesota 	URL:	http://www.cs.umn.edu/~bentlema/
> 
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