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Alias expansion conflicts with METHOD=POST

           Summary: Alias expansion conflicts with METHOD=POST
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.49
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Minor
          Priority: Other
         Component: mod_alias
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ssinyagin@yahoo.com


Hi, 

I've found this bug while porting my application (http://rrfw.sf.net) from 
mod_perl 1.0 to 2.0. I believe this is not a mod_perl bug.

The RRFW login form is like follows: 
<FORM CLASS="LoginForm" METHOD="POST" ACTION="/rrfw">

Apache configuration was:
  Alias /rrfw "/usr/local/rrfw-0.1/web"
  PerlRequire "/usr/local/rrfw-0.1/share/rrfw/webmux2.pl"
  <Location /rrfw>
    SetHandler modperl
    PerlResponseHandler RRFW::Apache2Handler
  </Location>
  <Location /rrfw/plain/>
    SetHandler default-handler
    Options None
  </Location>

After accessing "http://192.168.49.128/rrfw" with the browser (both IE6 and 
Mozilla), the URL is shown as "http://192.168.49.128/rrfw/" (slash at the end), 
and after entering login and password I got the following output of "print 
STDERR $r->as_string();"  in my Perl handler:

==========
GET /rrfw/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-
excel,
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-
flash, */*
Referer: http://192.168.49.128/rrfw/
Accept-Language: en
Cookie: SESSION_ID=e7138d6c1b717528572ea1379a0dcc07
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 
1.1.4322)
Host: 192.168.49.128
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache

HTTP/1.1 (null)
===========

For some strange reason, the POST request was presented as GET, without the 
form arguments. 

The workaround was to change the Alias to 
  Alias /rrfw/plain "/usr/local/rrfw-0.1/web/plain"

Under Apache 1.3 it worked fine with either of the two Aliases.

Regards,
Stanislav

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