RE: [users@httpd] What the .... is Apache doing.

"Tomas Larsson" <ktl@xxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:12:14 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Malton [mailto:cjm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 10:32 AM
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [users@httpd] What the .... is Apache doing.
> 
> 
> I can get to the file fine!!
> 
> No probs here! Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 25 July 2005 09:26
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [users@httpd] What the .... is Apache doing.
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Krist van Besien [mailto:krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 8:19 AM
> > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] What the .... is Apache doing.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 7/25/05, Tomas Larsson <ktl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Sorry , I messed it up a little this is the way it is:
> > > > 
> > > >  Im getting this in my logs
> > > >  "GET /pub/xm/mek1/RAR/4hp18.zip.ed2k HTTP/1.1" 404 975 
> "-" "ed2k"
> 
> Is this the only line in the access log? Is there not a line 
> preceding it with the plain user request? Do you have a 
> rewrite rule or a redirection?
> 
> > > > 
> > > >  And this in the error log
> > > > 
> > > >  "File does not exist: .../pub/xm/mek1/RAR/4hp18.zip.ed2k"
> 
> 
> Is the "..." literal or have you edited log entry?

Yes I've edited the path out.

> 
> 
> Apache doesn't spontanteously edit request URIs unless you 
> tell it to. 
> 
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle
> Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. 
> 
> > > > 
> > > >  This when I enter the correct address in the address-bar
> > > > www.ktl.mine.nu/pub/xm/mek1/RAR/4hp18.zip
> > > > 
> > > > Well it doen't really matter which file, Apache adds ed2k
> > > after each
> > > > request, and tries to find the file, which obviously
> > doesn't exist.
> > > 
> > >  The "GET ..." line you see in your logs is the line exactly
> > > as your browser sends it. It is  not apache that adds the 
> > > ed2k, it is your browser that is adding it.
> > > 
> > > Krist
> > > 
> > > --
> > > krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Solothurn, Switzerland
> > 
> > No it cant be, because everyone that visits my site is logged
> > the exact
> > same way, which must mean that Apache is doing something, I 
> > don't believe
> > that all browsers/users are doing the same thing, regardles 
> of browser
> > type.
> > 
> > With best regards
> > 
> > Tomas Larsson
> > Sweden
> > 
> > Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
> 

Well, it seems that users also running eDonkey, produce this request,
probably due to the ed2k pluggins.
It seems that although it generates a lot of access errors, the requested
files are downloaded anyway.

Need to continue to investigate why some users get 404-errors, and some
not, thought first that this was the cause, but obviously not.

Is there a way to make Apache not produce an error when this type of
request happens.

With best regards

Tomas Larsson
Sweden

Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem