Bug 66649

Summary: TUX web server (PDF files fail to display in browser component)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: william rose <wrose>
Component: kernelAssignee: Ingo Molnar <mingo>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description william rose 2002-06-12 22:34:57 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I just upgraded 6-8-2002 to kernel 2.4.9-31 to resolve the security issues with 
tux. As of this morning, when a link targets a PDF file on the web server, tux 
fails to deliver it correctly, possibly not at all. To test this, I shut down 
tux and started Apache up and all links were then available. When tux _is_ 
running, you can right click on the link and save the file to your disk. From 
there it can be opened with a PDF reader. This leads me to believe that the 
Acrobat reader ActiveX component on windows, and the plugin on the Linux 
version, are using a corrupt content-size header to determine how much data to 
request over the wire. It is a known fact that browsers generally ignore the 
content-size header, thus right clicking and saving the file is successful 
through the browser. It is by these facts that I believe the content-size 
header is corrupt when tux sends it. This is occuring intermittenly.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run tux (seemed to be running for a few days before showing up).
2. Open browser.
3. Click on a PDF link.
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 william rose 2002-06-12 23:01:30 UTC 
Forgot to mention:
HP LPr Netservers, 1 dual 550MHz, 1 dual 850MHz (both PIII)
1-18 Gig SCSI /var partition with ext3
1-18 Gig SCSI divided up between /boot and / with ext3
Symbios SCSI

Software from RedHat 7.2 install running:
Samba
NFS 

Kernel 2.4.9-31 tux and required proc utils
Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 2002-07-12 13:40:00 UTC 
I think this is a kernel side, not a tux daemon side, issue.
Comment 3 Ingo Molnar 2003-07-05 08:05:48 UTC 
Please re-check with the current Tux kernel - still problematic?