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Date: 18 Jun 1999 17:05:56 -0000
From: Allen Chen <achen@cjas.org>
Reply-To: achen@cjas.org
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: Should Apache allow arguments appended to server-parsed files?
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>Number:         4608
>Category:       mod_include
>Synopsis:       Should Apache allow arguments appended to server-parsed files?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 18 10:10:01 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jun 18 11:21:28 PDT 1999
>Originator:     achen@cjas.org
>Organization:
>Release:        1.3.6
>Environment:
Solaris 2.6
>Description:
I am not certain if this is a bug or normal behvaior.  When you activate 
server-parsed HTML, Apache allows URLs to have extraneous stuff appended to it with a /.  For instance, http://www.a.com/main.html is the real URL, but
http://www.a.com/main.html/blah/junk/foo/bar also returns main.html.

I can see how this might be normal behavior since CGIs allow this, but our search engine is getting mightily confused because of it...
>How-To-Repeat:
This happens on your own site.  For instance:
     http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_include.html/asdkasdasdasdas
Also note that this creates a 
     "[an error occurred while processing this directive]"
error at the top of your page.
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: marc
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 18 11:21:28 PDT 1999
State-Changed-Why:
That is normal behaviour and is allowed on purpose.
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