Bug identified in user's web server [closed]

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / bugs / Running_on_an_alternative_port_fails.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/Running_on_an_alternative_port_fails.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Running_on_an_alternative_port_fails.mdwn
index d091bf1fc46388fbe1cbbad973d7e1f9923cc0c1..864c99fed388ff1a81920a721b5f984114973c86 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/Running_on_an_alternative_port_fails.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Running_on_an_alternative_port_fails.mdwn
@@ -25,47 +25,33 @@ right.
 >>>     SERVER_PORT=8181  
 >>>     HTTP_HOST=zippy0.ie0.cobbled.net  
 
 >>>     SERVER_PORT=8181  
 >>>     HTTP_HOST=zippy0.ie0.cobbled.net  
 

+[ ... ]
+

 >>>> In apache, `HTTP_HOST` includes the port. This is not part of the CGI
 >>>> spec it seems, but perl's `CGI` module seems to rely on it,
 >>>> in `virtual_port`:
 
 >>>> In apache, `HTTP_HOST` includes the port. This is not part of the CGI
 >>>> spec it seems, but perl's `CGI` module seems to rely on it,
 >>>> in `virtual_port`:
 

-<pre>
-    my $vh = $self->http('x_forwarded_host') || $self->http('host');
-    my $protocol = $self->protocol;
-    if ($vh) {
-        return ($vh =~ /:(\d+)$/)[0] || ($protocol eq 'https' ? 443 : 80);
-</pre>
+>>>>>     my $vh = $self->http('x_forwarded_host') || $self->http('host');
+>>>>>     my $protocol = $self->protocol;
+>>>>>     if ($vh) {
+>>>>>        return ($vh =~ /:(\d+)$/)[0] || ($protocol eq 'https' ? 443 : 80);

 
 >>>> The `CGI` module only looks at `SERVER_PORT` when there's no
 >>>> `HTTP_HOST`. So this is either a bug in perl's CGI or thttpd.
 >>>> --[[Joey]]
 
 
 >>>> The `CGI` module only looks at `SERVER_PORT` when there's no
 >>>> `HTTP_HOST`. So this is either a bug in perl's CGI or thttpd.
 >>>> --[[Joey]]
 

->>>     HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-ie, en  
->>>     PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin  
->>>     SCRIPT_NAME=/cgi-bin/printenv.sh  
->>>     HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-ie) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/531.2+ Ubuntu/10.10 () Epiphany/2.30.2  
->>>     PWD=/home/http1/www/cgi-bin  
->>>     REQUEST_METHOD=GET  
->>>     SERVER_SOFTWARE=thttpd
->>>     SERVER_NAME=zippy0  
->>>     SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1  
->>>     HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip  
->>>     GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1  
->>>     CGI_PATTERN=cgi-bin/*  
->>>     HTTP_COOKIE=ikiwiki_session_c%5E2%3Fsupport%3Dtrue=bdf13df0460966a607ba497967ea5ff4  
->>>     REMOTE_ADDR=10.0.0.1  
->>>     HTTP_ACCEPT=application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5  
-
->>Seems to be.  Using version from packaging system;
+[ ... ]

 
 

->>>     ikiwiki-3.20110905
+---

 
 

->> which I'd guess is from Sep.  Will look for updates and post back if still
-wrong.
+>>>>> This is interesting.  If HTTP_HOST is wrong then

 
 

->> Cheers
+>>>>> 0. the client header must be wrong (i.e. not including the PORT)
+>>>>> 0. `perl`'s doing something bad[tm] (or at least lazy)
+>>>>> 0. `apache` is adding it
+>>>>> 0. `thttpd` is stripping it

 
 

->> -- fergus
+>>>>> Quick hack shows that `thttpd` must be stripping the port
+number from the `Host:` header.  That can be fixed.

 
 

->> PS: all the links generated by CGI pages omit the port; this works if i login first and then
-reset the server on the 'odd' port -- hovering over the links absolute links with the port missing.
+>>>>> Thanks for the assist. -- fergus