Package: w3c-markup-validator
Version: 0.6.7-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The Apache-configuration supplied by this package is insufficient for
validating pages that require http-authorization.
The "check" script attempts to proxy the auth-request (the browser
pops up a login/password dialogue), but fails (the dialogue keeps
appearing over and over despite correctly entered login/password).
The problem is that the script expects the environment variable
HTTP_AUTHORIZATION to contain the contents of the Authorization-header
(see line 1408 in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/check). It does not by default.
By searching a little I've found an easy way to set this using
mod_rewrite, as shown in this tiny patch:
--- apache.conf.orig 2005-03-09 22:34:20.875157298 +0100
+++ apache.conf 2005-03-09 22:34:47.086559812 +0100
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
ScriptAlias /w3c-markup-validator/checklink /usr/lib/cgi-bin/checklink
Alias /w3c-markup-validator /usr/share/w3c-markup-validator/html
+RewriteEngine On
+RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)$ [NC]
+RewriteRule /.* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]
+
<Location /w3c-markup-validator>
Options +Includes +MultiViews
AddHandler server-parsed .html
Best regards,
Adam
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-asjo-p4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=da_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages w3c-markup-validator depends on:
ii apache [httpd] 1.3.33-4 versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii debconf 1.4.46 Debian configuration management sy
ii libconfig-general-perl 2.27-1 generic configuration module
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.45-1 A collection of modules that parse
ii libnet-ip-perl 1.20-2 Perl extension for manipulating IP
ii libset-intspan-perl 1.07-3 Manages sets of integers
ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.2-3 Convert between character sets in
ii liburi-perl 1.30-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii libwww-perl 5.803-4 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii opensp 1.5.1.0-2 OpenJade group's SGML parsing tool
ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sgml-data 2.0.2 common SGML and XML data
ii w3c-dtd-xhtml 1.1-5 W3C eXtensible HyperText Markup La
ii wwwconfig-common 0.0.42 Debian web auto configuration
-- debconf information:
* w3c-markup-validator/webserver: Apache
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