re: XP Home and Personal Web Server
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 2:00 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Walt
(1 messages posted)
This is from the apache website: http://nagoya.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/#xpbug
Windows XP Apache Users Read This First
If you will install Apache on Windows XP, you must install the Windows XP Service
Pack 1. You may obtain that service pack from;
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.asp
Additional Warning: we recommend disabling the "Quality of Service" (or QoS) network
driver from Microsoft if you are using Apache, since Apache does not support the
QoS extensions to the WinSock API.
The original distribution of Windows XP may expose you to a known bug, reported by
users of Apache 1.3 and 2.0 on Windows XP. The effects of this bug are particularly
observed in conjunction with https SSL/TLS connections, but also occurs in other
contexts.
It appears the combination of duplicating file handles between and parent and child
process, in conjunction with blocking sends to the http client may result in corrupted
output. You may not see corruption in MSIE, which tends to throw any error in the
'Cannot find server or DNS Error' category, rather than explaining the real error
or display the corruption. You will only see this corruption over slower links, testing
the local loopback (localhost) generally reveals no corruption. This is a potential
security risk, since the random, corrupt data served may come from anywhere, such
as the cache of buffered file pages containing sensitive data.
If you receive such errors on Windows XP using SSI scripting or PHP scripts, but
not static pages, you are probably a victim of this bug. Microsoft initially released
a hotfix for the issue, that has been superceeded by the Service Pack 1 release.
MSKB article Q317949 addresses this bug
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:53 am, Deborah wrote:
>Does Apache work with XP Home? Have you tested it out? Also does anyone if Xitami
>will work with XP Home?
>
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