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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Aram Mirzadeh <aw...@qosina.com> on 1996/06/24 16:34:04 UTC

WWW Form Bug Report: "Malformed (invalid) filenames in cache directory" on Linux (fwd)

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One more for the proxy mod... no ack.

chris@dycom.com.au said:
> From nobody@hyperreal.com  Mon Jun 24 05:45:50 1996
> Message-Id: <19...@taz.hyperreal.com>
> From: chris@dycom.com.au
> To: awm@qosina.com
> Date: Mon Jun 24  2:46:05 1996
> Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "Malformed (invalid) filenames in cache directory" on Linux
> 
> Submitter: chris@dycom.com.au
> Operating system: Linux, version: 1.2.13
> Version of Apache Used: 1.1b4
> Extra Modules used: No third party - Only the supplied caching module
> URL exhibiting problem: 
> 
> Symptoms:
> --
> It appears that Linux 1.2.13 "link" and "unlink"
> library functions (used in mod_proxy.c) do not
> like a "#" sign being in the file name argument.
> 
> Hence: You continually get the following errors:
> [Mon Jun 24 19:25:32 1996] proxy: error linking cache file
> - link: /extra_disk/web_cache/G/c/z/c_CdURYGl9hGUBTs4Iw: No such file or directory
> [Mon Jun 24 19:25:32 1996] proxy: error deleting temp file
> - unlink: /extra_disk/web_cache/#tmpa13433
> 
> This can be fixed by changing the line in mod_proxy.c
> which sets the temp file template from:
> "/#tmpXXXXX"      to:
> "/tmpXXXXX"
> 
> and all of a sudden it all starts working fine.
> 
> absolutely bizaar error, and I f__ked around with
> permissions for over 2 hours... to no avail.
> 
> Its fixed now, thats all I care about.
> 
> -Christopher Kuperman.
> 
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> Backtrace:
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> 

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