Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 230242
passing ks=http://192.168.1.1/foo/bar/ results in GET /./foo/bar
Last modified: 2007-11-16 20:14:55 EST
Description of problem: Passing in an http URL for a kickstart config file results in a get with a /. (slash-dot) prepended to the path. This confuses some fastcgi services like Rails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): KS boot environment is as shipped on the 4u4 CDs Ruby 1.8.5 Rails 1.1.6 ruby-fcgi 0.8.7 Apache 2.2.2 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a Ruby on Rails environment 2. Boot with ks=http://<bootServerIP>/<some path that maps to RoR> 3. Observe in access_log "GET /./<some path>" returning a 404. Actual results: 192.168.100.229 - - [27/Feb/2007:10:05:24 -0800] "GET /./systems/kickstart/2 HTTP/1.0" 404 610 Expected results: 192.168.100.229 - - [27/Feb/2007:10:05:24 -0800] "GET /systems/kickstart/2 HTTP/1.1" 200 5588 Additional info:
Is this better in RHEL5? I did some work on sanitizing these strings in the FC6 timeframe, so it should be a little better in that release.
Yes, better. A RHEL5 run reports: 192.168.100.229 - - [19/Apr/2007:15:05:28 -0700] "GET /systems/kickstart/8 HTTP/1.0" 200 7032
Okay, then I'm going to close this out as CURRENTRELEASE. If you require this fix to be backported for a RHEL5 update release, please speak with your support representative who will raise it through the appropriate channels. Thanks for the bug report and the testing.