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Bug#700673: marked as done (boa: QUERY_STRING not in CGI environment for null query string)

Your message dated Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:43:09 +0000
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and subject line Bug#744776: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #700673,
regarding boa: QUERY_STRING not in CGI environment for null query string
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: boa
Version: 0.94.14rc21-amd64
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi,

I recently installed the winhelpcgi.cgi program on my server machine, which 
breaks under boa because it expects to see a QUERY_STRING variable in its 
environment, even if it is an empty string for the case that no query string 
is supplied.  This is unusual, but completely valid--it's explicitly 
required by the CGI spec * that the server MUST set QUERY_STRING, even if 
empty, and CGI programs can reliably use this to detect whether they are 
running under a web server.

At the moment, I have a little shell script that sets the QUERY_STRING 
variable to "" if none is present in the environment and then execs the real 
CGI binary, but a real fix in boa would be appreciated.  I could, of course, 
also patch a workaround into winhelpcgi.cgi directly.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

* At the moment, that seems to be the (informational) RFC 3875.

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Version: 0.94.14rc21-5+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package boa has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/744776

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

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