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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] http/remote-curl: coddle picky servers
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:24:02 -0800
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Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > Look closely at the start of the requested URL: /gitweb.cgi...
> > It comes from this rule:
> >
> > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)$
> > RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /gitweb.cgi$1 [L,PT]
> >
> > which is global to the virtual host.
> >
> > Anyways, while git.debian.org can certainly be fixed for that, other
> > servers may want to do some different things with urls with parameters.
> 
> heh, I was suspecting some URL rewriting was going on.
> 
> Is this an issue that should be fixed in gitweb?

I don't see why it should be.  gitweb isn't a service CGI.  I find
it odd that someone would configure their website to route anything
with a query string into gitweb.  WTF?

-- 
Shawn.