2009/08/18 - Apache AxKit has been retired.

S.tygian B.lacksmith S.tudios wrote:
> I've found what may be a small bug in processing XSP files. I noticed 
> this due to my normal file naming conventions - I often use the 
> filename "core.html", etc.
> 
> It will display as plain text if it is saved as "core.xsp" but will 
> transform properly if given any other file name. No errors are reported 
> to the log regardless of the AxDebugLevel value set in httpd.conf.

This looks like it wants to be a security feature. In times long past 
when the axkittens were young and angle brackets green, AxKit would 
frequently dump core, and do so in its current working directory when it 
had write access to it (some people did that for the cache, though it's 
imho a bad idea).

Making a core dump publicly available is usually a bad thing, so some 
protection might have been devised. You may wish to try grepping through 
the code (or perhaps through your Apache setup in case you copied 
something) to see if there isn't a slightly overeager regex you could 
fix (sorry I don't have the source handy).

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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon [at] expway.fr>
Research Engineer, Expway
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