Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 56220 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2003 21:30:53 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2003 21:30:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 27070 invoked by uid 500); 6 Oct 2003 21:30:27 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 27051 invoked by uid 500); 6 Oct 2003 21:30:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list users@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 27036 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2003 21:30:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail) (213.78.22.97) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2003 21:30:26 -0000 Received: from Spooler by mail (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MO000049; 7 Oct 03 00:36:51 +0200 Received: from spooler by pbcls.com (Mercury/32 v3.32); 7 Oct 03 00:36:01 +0200 Received: from onetel.net.uk (192.168.1.4) by mail (Mercury/32 v3.32) with ESMTP ID MG000048; 7 Oct 03 00:35:56 +0200 Message-ID: <3F81DFA2.3BEF5E31@onetel.net.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:33:22 +0200 From: Peter Bissmire Organization: Peter Bissmire Communications & Language Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users@httpd.apache.org References: <20031005201635.PTSX28253.mf2@ubbe> <3F809440.9E4BA095@onetel.net.uk> <003b01c38c15$964ee2e0$6701a8c0@enterprise> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------BA26C5ACFB975E8A8348AF79" X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Proxy garbles "special" characters X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N --------------BA26C5ACFB975E8A8348AF79 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Telnetting yields following results. >From my server: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:22:36 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.43 (Win32) Content-Length: 290 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 From www.granddictionnaire.com: HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:51:31 GMT Pragma: no-cache Location: btml/fra/r_motclef/index.asp Content-Length: 158 Content-Type: text/html Expires: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:50:31 GMT Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQCRRACTS=OJOCEJCANCIFHHDGHKBLPHEF; path=/ Cache-control: no-store So my server mentions a charset, IIS does not. I see no other significant difference (apart from charset mention in html meta) But what does this mean? Peter Bissmire Leif W wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Bissmire" > To: > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 5:59 PM > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Proxy garbles "special" characters > > [snip] > > > Pardon my apparent ignorance, but what should I expect to see as http > header > > and how should I render it visible? > > One way to do this would be to telnet directly to the server and talk HTTP. > > telnet server.com 80 > GET /path/to/file.html HTTP/1.1 > Host: server.com [hit enter twice] > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:18:22 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.47 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7b DAV/2 PHP/4.3.3 > Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:10:02 GMT > ETag: "22c003-d9-5ecebe80" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 217 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > > > > > > This is not here. > > > > Connection to host lost. > > [snip] > > Leif > > > Peter Bissmire > > > > > > Jonas Eckerman wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:15:53 +0200, Peter Bissmire wrote: > > > > > > > I find certain sites are proxied with garbled "special" characters > > > > (accented letters, apostrophes etc.). > > > > > > Garbled in what way? > > > > > > > The problem appears to be limited to IIS sites (.asp pages). > > > > My guess is that the "specials" are being dished up as > > > > 7-bit pairs and that these are "split" by the Apache proxy. > > > > > > I think you should start with checking this guess. Fetch a document > > > directly from one of the IIS servers and look at both the headers and > > > the data. See if the actual data is send in the format specified by > > > the headers. Check both the http and the html headers. > > > > > > Then fetch the same document from the Apache proxy, and compare all > > > the headers and data. > > > > > > With 7-bit pairs I suppose you mean double-byte characters of some > > > kind. Are you guessing it is sending double-byte unicode data or > > > using one of Microsofts double-byte codepages? > > > > > > Anyway, what do you mean when you think they are "split" by the > > > Apache proxy? Two bytes are two bytes. If they arrive in the right > > > order they arrive in the right order. If they are in two different > > > TCP packages, that doesn't matter. So I really don't understand what > > > it is you're guseeing... > > > > > > Maybe you have the URL for a page that gets "garbled" characters? > > > > > > > Can anyone indicate a configuration fix for this? > > > > > > So far, we don't know wether it's the Apache proxy or the IIS servers > > > that's doing something bad, and we don't know how any of them are > > > configured... > > > > > > Regards > > > /Jonas > > > -- > > > Jonas Eckerman, jonas_lists@frukt.org > > > http://www.fsdb.org/ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. > > > See for more info. > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org > > > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > > See for more info. > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org > > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org --------------BA26C5ACFB975E8A8348AF79 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="pbiss.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Peter Bissmire Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pbiss.vcf" begin:vcard n:Bissmire;Peter tel;fax:+44-1443-821 987 tel;home:+44-1443-837 256 tel;work:+44-1443-837 256 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Peter Bissmire Communications and Language Services version:2.1 email;internet:pbiss@onetel.net.uk adr;quoted-printable:;;Canton House, 5 River Row=0D=0A;Deri, Bargoed;Mid-Glam.;CF81 9GJ;GB fn:Peter Bissmire end:vcard --------------BA26C5ACFB975E8A8348AF79 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. 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