On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:30:54PM +0200, ROSSEL Olivier (CIMPA) wrote: > On sqwebmail from Debian Sarge:
What version of sqwebmail is that? Not all of us have a Debian box in front of us. > [1]http://mysite/cgi-bin/sqwebmail/login/knoppix.authdaemon/B8F4914528 > 615600F0D25DBEB3FCE72A/1088093566?&form=folder&folder=INBOX ... > And the above URL is typically an illegal URL: > the argument list is not supposed to begin with a &. The specification for a URL is in RFC1738, where it says: An HTTP URL takes the form: http://<host>:<port>/<path>?<searchpart> It says that <searchpart> cannot contain / ; or ?, but places no further restriction in the text. It also gives a formal syntax: httpurl = "http://"; hostport [ "/" hpath [ "?" search ]] ... search = *[ uchar | ";" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" ] Nowhere does it say that the first character of a search expression may not be "&". RFC1738 is updated by RFCs 1808, 2368, 2396 but I don't see anything in there which contradicts this. RFC1808 specifically refers back to RFC1738 for the syntax of a query string. > It is ok for Apache. But not for Pound: it returns a 501 error > and insults me. Then Pound is at fault. I don't know anything about this software, but I suggest you contact the author or vendor and request that it be fixed. Regards, Brian.
