[fpc-devel] FPC bug tracker page is sniffing user agents?

Sun Sep 25 11:54:19 CEST 2011

Hello,

Accessing http://bugs.freepascal.org/login_page.php

Using the following user agent (Opera in Mac OS X):

Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6.1; U; en) Presto/2.9.168
Version/11.50

I get:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:48:31 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.5 PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.17
with Suhosin-Patch
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 514
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Size=514
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
Request header field is missing ':' separator.<br />
<pre>
Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6.1; U; en) Presto/2.9.168
Version/11.50</pre>
</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.5 PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.17
with Suhosin-Patch Server at bugs.freepascal.org Port 80</address>
</body></html>

If I use the user agent from Firefox I get the propor page.

I tested with a program written in fpc which can be found here (and
with the browsers too, of course):
http://p-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/p-tools/httpclient/

Any ideas?

AFAIK we don't have a special version of our pages, so I suppose that
we should not sniff user agents.

thanks,
-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho