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Posted to cvs@httpd.apache.org by wr...@apache.org on 2002/03/21 07:42:20 UTC
cvs commit: httpd-dist/binaries/win32 README.html
wrowe 02/03/20 22:42:20
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Thanks for the info, Allan!
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<p>If you will install Apache on Windows XP, be warned. There is a known bug
our users have identified; you may or may not encounter it yourself. It
- will be fixed in the forthcoming Apache 1.3.24 release. The effects of
- this bug within Apache 2.0 Beta are not yet determined.</p>
+ is mitigated but possibly not eliminated with the Apache 1.3.24 release.
+ The effects of this bug within Apache 2.0 Beta are not yet observed.</p>
<p>It appears the combination of duplicating file handles between and parent
and child process, in conjunction with blocking sends to the http client,
may result in corrupted output. You may not see this in MSIE, which tends
- to throw any error in the 'Cannot find server or DNS Error' category.</p>
+ to throw any error in the 'Cannot find server or DNS Error' category, rather
+ than display the corruption. You will only see this corruption over slower
+ links, testing the local loopback generally reveals no corruption.</p>
<p>If you receive such errors on Windows XP using SSI scripting or PHP scripts,
but not static pages, you are probably a victim of this bug. It has been
- reported to Microsoft, we understand they are working on a hotfix that will
- address this bug. Details will be posted when we have more information.</p>
+ reported to Microsoft, we understand they are preparing a hotfix for afd.sys
+ that addresses this bug. MSKB article Q317949 has been reserved for this
+ issue, you should be able to obtain this hotfix citing this [yet unpublished]
+ Knowledge Base article.</p>
<h2><a name="stable">The current stable release is Apache 1.3.23</a></h2>