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Date: 1 Feb 2002 18:49:04 -0000
From: rodrigo campos <camposr@uol.com.br>
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To: submit@bugz.apache.org
Subject: faulty perl script
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>Number:         9686
>Category:       mod_rewrite
>Synopsis:       faulty perl script
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 01 10:50:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Wed Feb 06 11:03:52 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Wed Feb 06 11:03:52 PST 2002
>Originator:     camposr@uol.com.br
>Release:        1.3.x
>Organization:
>Environment:
apache site
>Description:
The perl script used to generate an ndbm file listed as an example at mod_rewrite documentation page does not treat comment and 'all space' correctly lines due to the fact that the s metacharacter is not escaped

the use of dbmopen is deprecated

dbmopen does not regenerate all records, creating an "always append" condition
>How-To-Repeat:
look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
right after the RewriteMap directive
>Fix:

#!/path/to/bin/perl
##
##  txt2dbm -- convert txt map to dbm format
##

use NDBM_File;
use Fcntl;


($txtmap, $dbmmap) = @ARGV;
open(TXT, "<$txtmap");
tie (%DB, 'NDBM_File', $dbmmap,O_RDWR|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT, 0644);
while (<TXT>) {
    next if (m|^\s*#.*| or m|^\s*$|);
    $DB{$1} = $2 if (m|^\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)$|);
}
untie %DB;
close(TXT)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: slive
State-Changed-When: Wed Feb  6 11:03:52 PST 2002
State-Changed-Why:

Thanks.  We have made your changes along with a couple
others suggested by someone on the docs list.  The new
version will be in the next release.

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