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[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:51:42AM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:22AM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
>> 
>> The error I get is:
>> 
>>  % bzr branch http://therning.org/magnus_bzr/epilicious
>>  bzr: ERROR: HTTP Error 406: Not Acceptable
>>    command: '/home/magnus/bin/bzr' 'branch' 'http://therning.org/magnus_bzr/epilicious'
>>        pwd: u'/home/magnus/prog/tmp'
>>      error: urllib2.HTTPError
>>    at /usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py line 480, in http_error_default()
>>    see ~/.bzr.log for debug information
>> 
>> Any pointers on how to resolve it?
>
>This is the file it is requesting:
>http://www.therning.org/magnus_bzr/epilicious/.bzr/revision-store/c4/Arch-x%3Amagnus%40therning.org--epilicious%25epilicious--main--0--base-0
>
>If I go to that URL with Firefox, I get the same 406 error from the web
>server.
>
>Obviously this is a branch which has been converted from an Arch
>archive. But I don't know why the webserver can't just try and export it
>as an octet stream, or as a text file.
>
>Perhaps you need to look at your mime_magic settings.
>This is how mine is set up (these are spread out throughout the file,
>but I put them together for helpfulness)
>
>LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
>TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
>DefaultType text/plain
><IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
>    MIMEMagicFile conf/magic
></IfModule>

Just thought I should report that I've solved the problem. It was indeed
an Apache configuration issue.

Apparently the administrators are using mod_security[1] and it's quite
aggressively configured. The problem was the percentage signs in the
filenames. By sticking a .htaccess in the top dir containing the
following lines:

 
 <IfModule mod_security.c>
   SecFilterEngine Off
   SecFilterScanPOST Off
 </IfModule>

I turned off mod_security. Now bzr can access all the files properly :-)

/M

1. http://www.modsecurity.org/

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