The following reply was made to PR os-sco/1562; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "David J Woolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: os-sco/1562: BrowserMatch variable cause CGI failure: 'varia
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:07:38 +0100
> On 16 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hmm. Would you please reply with the exact BrowserMatch
> > line from your configuration file?
> >
This is the last one I tried on MSIE 4; I cut out one variable
because it wasn't documented except in the MSIE 4/ Java workaround
and I thought Apache was rejecting it at the time:
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0" force-response-1.0
I also tried:
BrowserMatch "Lynx" force-response-1.0
>
> This is a known problem (thought there was another PR about it... can't
> find it right now) related to the use of a "-" in a variable name. Some
> shells do not accept that. It needs to be changed in the Apache code. A
> temporary workaround would be to use a replacement shell that supports it
> (eg. bash), however this can only be changed by recompiling Apache with
> the SHELL_PATH define changed.
This seems sufficient but not necessary. SCO /bin/sh certainly
doesn't parse variables with a - properly, but the error message
observed can only be generated by using export, whereas the - would
have produced an error on the assignment as well.
# fred-1=jim
fred-1=jim: not found
# 'fred-1'=jim
fred-1=jim: not found
# export fred-1
fred-1: is not an identifier
# export fred
# fred-1=jim /bin/echo
fred-1=jim: not found
# export fred-1=jim
fred-1=jim: is not an identifier
# fred=jim
#
As I indicated in the original report, marketing considerations that
are outside the hands of a mere programmer, mean that the system sold
will use SCO Fast Start and its included Netscape; I was using Apache
for testing on the older SCO we had in this office, although
personally I see no technical advantage in Netscape (the application
is so CGI intensive that threads offer no advantage). As such, I can
work round by configuring MSIE not to use HTTP 1.1.
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