Bug#314168: apache-perl: Dot at end of filename not treated as significant

[Paul Gammans <paul@computer-surgery.co.uk>]

Package: apache-perl
Version: 1.3.33-4
Severity: normal


When making GET requests for a file in the form <path>/<leafname>.exe apache
will return a file in the same path which has a trailing dot I.E.

Both the requests
'GET /~paul/testfile.exe.'
and 
'GET /~paul/testfile.exe'

return the file '/home/paul/public_html/testfile.exe.' not the trailing
dot in the filename. This only is the case for requsts for .exe, .zip, .html
files but strangly not .ini files


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages apache-perl depends on:
ii  apache-common               1.3.33-4     support files for all Apache webse
ii  debconf                     1.4.46       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.27      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libapache-mod-perl          1.29.0.3-4   integration of perl with the Apach
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2                    4.2.52-18    Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.8-1     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libmagic1                   4.12-1       File type determination library us
ii  libperl5.8                  5.8.4-8      Shared Perl library
ii  logrotate                   3.7-2        Log rotation utility
ii  mime-support                3.31-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

-- debconf information:
  apache-perl/old-pidfile-set:
  apache-perl/upgrade-from-apache-conflict:
  apache-perl/server-port: 80
  apache-perl/init: true
* apache-perl/enable-suexec: false
  apache-perl/server-name: localhost
  apache-perl/server-admin: you@your.address
  apache-perl/document-root: /var/www