>Number: 3462 >Category: other >Synopsis: apache can't handle firewalls blocking identd queries >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 30 03:30:01 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.3 >Environment: Linux 2.0.36 gcc 2.7.2.1 >Description: This problem occurs in two stages: First, if apache is configured to log the results of identd queries, there will be no entries at all if someone is viewing those pages through a firewall Second (and more serious) problem is that if we enable cgi-scripts and server side includes, no one behind those firewalls will get any pages. >How-To-Repeat: Just put "IdentityCheck on" to httpd.conf, and "Options Includes ExecCGI" to access config file and try to view any page through a firewall blocking identd queries.. >Fix: Not right now, but I'll try to debug your code and fix this myself.. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
