Re: [MiNT] Problems with apache

[Keith Scroggins <kws@saltmine.radix.net>]

Do you get any errors to appear in your error.log for apache?

I actually tested 1.3.28 for a while (the RPM learning curve was getting
at me, 1.3.29 was only tested briefly), and also have/had modssl and php
working with 1.3.28 as well as various perl scripts, and never noticed
this problem.  PHP/SSL do put a load on the server.  The RPM would have
been of 1.3.28, but there was a security issue in it, so along came
1.3.29, and it had just a buffer overflow fix which did not seem to impact
us as far as I could tell, maybe I was wrong.

I'll give your script a try, and install some others and see what happens.
BTW, what script, if publically available, were you using when you first
found the problem?

Keith

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Guido Flohr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I experienced a problem with CGI in the apache-1.3.29-1 rpm available
> for Sparemint.  CGI applications are not able to output more than 8166
> bytes of content, 8291 bytes including headers.
>
> This Perl script reproduces the problem:
>
> #! /usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
>
> my $output = <<EOF;
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> EOF
>
> my $l = length $output;
>
> while ($l < 100 * 1024) {
> 	$output .= sprintf '%x', ($l >> 8) & 0xf;
> 	++$l;
> }
>
> print $output;
> __END__
>
> Is this a known issue? Rewriting the thing in C instead of Perl does not
> change one thing here.
>
> Ciao
>
> Guido
>
>
>