[arch-dev-public] Search binary file bug

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Dusty Phillips <dusty at linux.ca> wrote:
>>> 2009/9/13 Dusty Phillips <dusty at linux.ca>:
>>>> 2009/9/13 Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>:
>>>>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Forwarding this on because it's reproducible using "myadmin" (I tried).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: Sammie S. Taunton <diemuzi at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM
>>>>>> Subject: weird search bug
>>>>>> To: aaron at archlinux.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't explain it so maybe you'll have a random guess at it. But I'm
>>>>>> using the latest firefox version and I went to search for a package
>>>>>> (phpmyadmin) and it returns a downloadable mimetype of
>>>>>> application/octet-stream
>>>>>> However using IE, it works just fine. So just for giggles I tried
>>>>>> searching for myadmin and same thing. Every other package I'm
>>>>>> searching for works just fine lol. So I dunno haha
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~ Sammie
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can also reproduce it when searching for other packages. This error
>>>>> only appears sometimes. There's a FR:
>>>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16134
>>>>
>>>> 'other packages' doesn't help me. specific search terms do. :-)
>>>
>>> Except... 'myadmin' works fine for me.
>>>
>>> Dusty
>>>
>>
>> auctex, xerces-c-2 (deleted since then)
>>
>> The BIN problem come and go.  When firefox tries to download a BIN, if
>> you click cancel and do the search again, it will work fine. If you
>> try again 5-6 time it will work fine.  I can't replicate that problem
>> reliably. wonder also had this problem.
>
> Yeah but searching for "myadmin" on here
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ (NOT the dev site) reproduces it
> 100% of the time. That's why I forwarded this along, as it MAY give us
> a clue to the cause.
>
> I wonder... do we have some sort of apache level protections in place
> for people trying to hit like "/phpmyadmin/" on the server? It could
> be butting up against something like that

100% of the time for me too, and not only that, but I can get it 100%
of the time just searching for "mya". "my" seems to work.

In addition, we have a ton of 404's on the resources for that page right now.

-Dan