$ mar nov 04 14:45:44 +0000 2008: HTTP parse error, malformed request (127.0.0.1): #

At first glance, this could sound logical that mongrel refuses to serve an invalid request, but if you’re a service provider, your first rule is: Never give up on anything. Rememeber : you’re on the Internet, you will have some junk in the hands eventually.

So, as a service provider, you wan’t your web application to be as pragmatic as possible: if an invalid request comes into play, let’s try to sanitize it so it can fallback to something understandable by mongrel.

This specific issue happens when you want to access a Rails app with an invalid/incomplete URL-encoded string in the query string, for instance :

var=%ZZ

The following RewriteRule Voodoo replaces any invalid % snippets with their encoded form (%25):

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)%([^0-9a-fA-F]|[0-9a-fA-F][^0-9a-fA-F]|$)(.*)
RewriteRule (.*) $1?%1\%25%2%3 [N]

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• You can now safely use multipe coercions for the same subtype (thanks to Rached Ben Mustapha for discovering this issue)
• A major bug was found by Andy Yatz in Coat’s inheritance mechanism. This bug is closed in this version too.
• Another bug was closed, concerning the built-in subtype “Object”, whose validation code was broken.

I’m now focusing on porting as many Moose tests as I can to improve the test-suite of Coat.

As you can see, a couple of changes occured in the Kernel API and that blocks the build.

Hope that can help.

I’m back from holydays (those two weeks spent at Marbella, Spain, were fantastic, I even managed to fix my programmer’s tan, true).

I’m back at work, which means back at Debian’s work as well. I took a tour on my QA page yesterday in order to do some cleanup in and there. I first focused on the my Perl packages. I upgraded my working copy of the Perl Group’s SVN repo, whose layout changed recently thanks to Joey Hess. All of the perl libraries I maintain are now officially handled by the team (Maintainer: Debian Perl Group, myself as an uploader).
I then came to backup-manager in order to do some bug-hunting and closed 3 of them.

It’s a Dual Core AMD 64 that runs a “Debian 3.1 Sarge” system, rock on babe!

Now, it’s time to move everything from nyx.sukria.net (my home-hosted box) to hypnos.sukria.net…

(…and yeah, @backup-manager.org services are affected by these changes)

He then answered me he didn’t have enough time for this package and offered me to adopt it, and guess what, I accepted.
I’ll be the new maintainer of electricsheep as soon as 2.6.2-1 gets uploaded to unstable by Neil McGovern, my sponsor.

That’s a pleasure for me to package such a creative piece of software; stay tuned androids, you’ll soon dream of electric sheeps!

That’s a shame, I must say that I totally agree with Christian, we failed.

Moreover, I really feel this Non like a xenophobic word, making me ashamed of my country quite the same way as when Le Pen passed the first election tour in 2002.

That’s so bad…