[BUG proxy/rewrite]: "endless loop in mod_proxy" on Solaris 2.x (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

not acked

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Date: Wed Mar  5 21:31:22 1997
From: chris@jtan.com
To: apache-bugs%apache.org@organic.com
Subject: [BUG]: "endless loop in mod_proxy" on Solaris 2.x

Submitter: chris@jtan.com
Operating system: Solaris 2.x, version: 
Version of Apache Used: 1.2b7
Extra Modules used: mod_proxy mod_rewrite
URL exhibiting problem: 

Symptoms:
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Once in a while the daemon goes nuts with the
error_log filling with 

can't open /usr/local/etc/httpd/proxy///////////
[followed by a zillion more slashes]

This seems to be related to my use of mod_rewrite
with the rule 

RewriteRule   ^/~(.+)$ http://home.jtan.com/~$1 [P]

that is intended to map ~user pages onto another 
machine. Note that this is an intermittent problem. 
The server runs fine for hours and then suddenly goes
crazy.

I think there maybe a CGI relationship too. Usually
the page it goes nuts on contains some cgi link, but
the problem is not reproducable. No particular
page always makes this happen.  

The other server, home.jtan.com, is also running
Apache 1.2b7 with mod_proxy enabled 
and does not exhibit this problem.
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Backtrace:
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