os-windows/8514: Apache invokes dormant instances of Notepad when including a text file in a CGI-directory.

[Christian M�ller <mu...@fmi.uni-passau.de>]

>Number:         8514
>Category:       os-windows
>Synopsis:       Apache invokes dormant instances of Notepad when including a text file in a CGI-directory.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 12 00:50:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     mueller@fmi.uni-passau.de
>Release:        1.3.20, Win32
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Windows 98 SE, german version, newest patches of date October 12th, 2001
>Description:
I've discovered the problem when i was playing around with Newspro 3.8 (script available at http://www.amphibianweb.com/newspro/). it writes news to a file called "news.txt" in html format which you include into your web pages by a SSI include virtual="cgi-bin/news.txt"
this works on my unix box, but not on windows.
instead, the page containing the SSI call will never be displayed - timeout.
also, Apache starts a dormant instance of Notepad which only shows up in the Task Manager. After accessing the faulty page for a few times the system crashes completely.
>How-To-Repeat:
i've written a short sample page. you can download it from
http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~mueller/apachebug/include.zip
>Fix:
no idea
>Release-Note:
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