>Number: 5720
>Category: general
>Synopsis: bug in http_vhost.c causes error when hostname contains
>underscore ("_")
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 07 17:30:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Release: 1.3.11
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
SGI Irix 6.5 but should occur on all platforms
>Description:
Check out line 676 in http_vhost.c in the main directory. It performs a isalnum
check on each character of the hostname string I guess to make sure it contains
valid characters. The inalnum() function however does not recognize the
underscore "_" as valid. However it is valid and should be allowed.
>How-To-Repeat:
My server is on a classified network...however if you configure a machine to
have an underscore in the name (i.e. my_server.anywhere.com) you should see the
problem.
>Fix:
I've tried a couple of things but I haven't found anything that works yet...I
tried to add a line like if(*src == '_') continue; after the check for ":" but
that causes an infinite loop. Maybe we need to add && *src != '_' to line
676...I'll try that tomorrow.
>Release-Note:
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