>Number: 1842
>Category: os-windows
>Synopsis: Symbolic links not followed.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 19 19:10:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3b5
>Environment:
Win 95, version 4.00.95a.
>Description:
I skimmed the docs but didn't find any problem reports about Win 95
shortcuts. When attempting to access a shortcut to a directory, all
I get back is a binary dump of the shortcut file (*.LNK).
>How-To-Repeat:
Install 1.3b5, configure the document root to be c:/www (after you've
created the dir, of course). Run the server.
I have my document root directory set up as:
c:\www
Now, I want to link to another directory (e.g. "c:\movies\avi") so I
create a shortcut and throw that into "c:\www". Now the contents of
"c:\www" appear as:
Volume in drive C is RYO-OHKI
Volume Serial Number is 2C13-14DD
Directory of C:\WWW
. <DIR> 02-19-98 6:25p .
.. <DIR> 02-19-98 6:25p ..
AVI LNK 368 02-19-98 6:26p avi.lnk
Now use your browser and go to the server. You should get a listing
of files, the AVI.LNK being one of them. Click on that and you _should_
go to the directory in question. But, no, all you get back is "L".
As a test, type this: "type avi.lnk". You'll get back garbage, but the
"L" should be the first character. I imagine that an EOF (ASCII 26) is
one of the characters following that 'L'.
>Fix:
Nope. Check the Win32 docs on how to resolve pathnames?
%0
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