Bug 2690 - HTTP install: double slashes in URL after web server name
Summary: HTTP install: double slashes in URL after web server name
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Matt Wilson
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Reported: 1999-05-09 22:23 UTC by Radoslav Bendik
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-07-15 22:21:45 UTC

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Description Radoslav Bendik 1999-05-09 22:23:33 UTC 
According to rhmanual (sec. 5.4) path to RedHat directory has to begin with slash.
But installer adds yet another slash between web server name and path (src/install/urlmethod.c:302), so this results to URL like "http://web.server.org//redhat-6.0/RedHat/" which can cause problems with some web servers (e.g. OSU but also Apache).
Apache returns "404 Not Found" for "//~user/" although "/~user/" is "200 OK". However "//directory/" is also OK (this is probably problem with Apache).

FIX (to RedHat)
write path to RedHat directory without beginning '/' (change the docs)
or in urlmethod.c change the line 302:
   sprintf(ui->urlprefix, "%s://%s/%s",
to:
   sprintf(ui->urlprefix, "%s://%s%s",
Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-05-10 20:35:59 UTC 
I have verified that the http strings does in fact get formatted as
reported which can cause confusion on some web servers.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-07-15 22:21:59 UTC 
will be fixed on next installer release.
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