On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:12:05PM -0400, George Adams wrote: > >> Joe> Are these all simple static files, or is /out/ handled by some CGI > >> Joe> script etc? > >> > >> Joe, you're right - they do get passed through a Perl script for > >> processing. However, unless I'm mistaken, I don't THINK the following > >> code would produce the kind of problems I'm seeing: > > > >OK, no, it's not your code at fault, it's a bug in httpd. You can apply > >this patch: http://people.apache.org/~jorton/ap_byterange.diff and I > >guess I should really submit this for backport to 2.0.x. > > > Joe, thanks for the patch. I'll apply it and see if it helps. > > One last followup question, though. It seems like there must be tons of > sites in the world doing what I'm doing - serving a large amount of > downloads. And probably most of those sites are running Apache, and > probably a lot of them are using Apache 2.0.x . How is it that they don't > seem to have the same problem? If this bug has survived in Apache 2 this > long, it must be fairly obscure. Is there some unique set of circumstances > that is causing this bug to affect only me and a few others, and not a > large number of other Apache servers?
The bug only triggers with: - a CGI/... script which generates a large response - a user pointing a download accelerator (or suchlike) at said script. and it has been reported two times on this list in as many weeks - so not that uncommon I guess. joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
