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Hello,

I've got trouble while read or restoring file(s) with backupPC
2.0.0beta0: the mime type HTML header seems to be provided as a part of
the document or the zip file.

For instance, if I browse backup and click on a file, I've got this
display (the file really begins with "this_is_the_beginnig_of_file") :

------<cut here>------------------------------
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="NOTES.TXT"

this_is_the_beginnig_of_file
blah, blah, blah,
....
------<cut here>------------------------------


I don't have any trouble if I directly restore the file on a network
share (thanks to samba).


If I request a file zip as a restoring archive, the browser "save as
..." provides me "bacckupPC_Admin" as suggested save filename.

I changed it with another name with a .zip extension and download it.
The obtained zip file seems to be a little corrupted, and is still usable:

------<cut here>------------------------------
C:\TEMP>unzip -v
UnZip 5.42 of 14 January 2001, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by C. Spieler.
Send bug reports to the authors at Zip-Bugs < at > lists.wku.edu; see README
for details.

C:\TEMP>unzip -t restore.zip
Archive: restore.zip
warning [restore.zip]: 121 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
testing: ./NOTES.TXT OK
No errors detected in compressed data of restore.zip.

C:\TEMP>unzip restore.zip
Archive: restore.zip
warning [restore.zip]: 121 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
inflating: ./NOTES.TXT
------<cut here>------------------------------


So It really looks like the web server provides a misconfigured HTTP
transfert, by provides the mime type in the "body" of its answer.

Did I miss someting in the Apache configuration, or in the backupPC
documentation or an already resolved submit in backupPC mailing list(s)
????

Thanks for any advice or explanation !

Regards,

Pierre Bourgin





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Are you using mod_perl? If so, please add

PerlSendHeader On

to apache's httpd.conf inside the mod_perl directives for BackupPC_Admin.

Craig


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cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net a =E9crit:

Are you using mod_perl? If so, please add
=20
PerlSendHeader On
=20
to apache's httpd.conf inside the mod_perl directives for BackupPC_Admi=
n.

Hello,

and thanks for this great advice !
Do you plan to add it in the documentation ?

It's working nice in order to browse "online" backuped file(s).

... but the produced .zip file still has the same troubles :

with netscape 7.02
- the proposed save-as name is "backupPC_admin" (without extension)
- it's still containing 121 extra bytes

with Internet Explorer 5.5
- the produced zip file is provided "online", instead of "save as ...=
"

I don't understand what's happening, I don't think it's coming from my
web client(s) ... perhaps a mismatch in my Apache configuration ?

Nothing suspect appears in the access or error apache logfiles with
"Loglevel debug" in httpd.conf.

I use the following softwares under solaris 7:

apache-1.3.27nb3 Apache HTTP (Web) server
ap-perl-1.25nb1 Module that embeds a Perl interpreter into Apache
libperl-5.6.1 Perl DynaLoader as a shared object
perl-5.6.1nb7 Practical Extraction and Report Language
p5-Date-Calc-5.0 perl5 module for Gregorian calendar date calculatio=
ns
p5-Date-Manip-5.39 perl5 module for date calculations
p5-MIME-Base64-2.12 perl5 module for Base64 and Quoted-Printable encodi=
ngs
p5-Mail-Sendmail-0.78 perl5 module dedicated to Sendmail
p5-Net-1.11 perl5 modules to access and use network protocols
p5-MailTools-1.43 perl5 modules related to mail applications
p5-Net-Telnet-3.02 perl5 module to use telnet
p5-CGI-2.79 perl5 module for writing forms-based CGI programs
p5-Compress-Zlib-1.16 perl5 module interface to the zlib compression libr=
ary
p5-Archive-Zip-0.11 perl5 module interface to manipulate zip files
p5-Archive-Tar-0.22 perl5 module interface to manipulate tar files


and my apache configuration file looks like:

--------<cut here>-------------------------------------------------------
# backupPC
LoadModule perl_module /usr/pkg/lib/httpd/mod_perl.so
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
PerlModule Apache::Registry
PerlTaintCheck On
<Location /cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
PerlSendHeader On
Options ExecCGI
AuthType Basic
AuthName "BackupPC login"
AuthUserFile /t200/divers/backupPC/conf/htpasswd
require valid-user
</Location>
</IfModule>
--------<cut here>-------------------------------------------------------


Hopfully, theses troubles are not critical, they just require more explan=
ations
to the end-user

Regards,

Pierre Bourgin



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cbarratt < at > users.sourceforge.net a =E9crit:

Are you using mod_perl? If so, please add

PerlSendHeader On

to apache's httpd.conf inside the mod_perl directives for BackupPC_Admin.

Hello,

and thanks for this great advice !
Do you plan to add it in the documentation ?

It's in the 2.0.0 documentation.

It's working nice in order to browse "online" backuped file(s).

... but the produced .zip file still has the same troubles :

with netscape 7.02
- the proposed save-as name is "backupPC_admin" (without extension)
- it's still containing 121 extra bytes

with Internet Explorer 5.5
- the produced zip file is provided "online", instead of "save as ..."

I don't understand what's happening, I don't think it's coming from my
web client(s) ... perhaps a mismatch in my Apache configuration ?

It looks like the CGI headers are getting mangled somehow, or
additional headers are getting inserted before the real ones
generated by BackupPC_Admin. Have you tried it without mod_perl?

Also, what version of BackupPC are you running? The code for generating
the zip and tar files was updated in 2.0.0beta1.

Craig


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