Topic: LocationMatch partially working

[denimpowell]

I have this strange issue that comes up using IE6 but not IE7. I have 2 virtual servers setup. Each one I have pointing at a web application residing on a remote machine. For each I have setup a LocationMatch directive that requires a valid user. This part works fine but there is a linked url that loads correctly in IE7 but not IE6. Here is the virtual host info that i have in the httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:7070>
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache2.2.4/htdocs/VirtHost1"
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache2.2.4/htdocs/VirtHost1">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /Switchboard http://SERVER1:7002/Switchboard
ProxyPassReverse /Switchboard http://SERVER1:7002/Switchboard
<LocationMatch /Switchboard/*>
AuthType Digest
AuthName "IncidentTrackerFull"
AuthUserFile "C:/Program Files/Apache2.2.4/security/DigestAccess"
Require valid-user
</LocationMatch>
</VirtualHost>

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Now, for both IE6 and IE7, the first page authenticates and loads correctly with the url

http://blade1:7070/Switchboard

However on this URL is a link to another URL

http://blade1:7070/Switchboard/IncidentSwitchboard.do?action=OPEN

(edit : blade1 is the name of the machine that the apache server resides on)

IE7 loads it fine; IE6 does not. Interestingly enough, if I completely remove the LocationMatch, or if I replace the regular expression

<LocationMatch /Switchboard/*>
with
<LocationMatch /Switchboard/IncidentSwitchboard.do?action=OPEN>

then the page loads. In the error logs for the failed requests, this is what displays:

[Tue Sep 04 11:53:17 2007] [error] [client 192.168.3.185] Digest: uri mismatch - </Switchboard/IncidentSwitchboard.do> does not match request-uri </Switchboard/IncidentSwitchboard.do?action=OPEN>

Is IE6 doing something funky with that '?' (maybe applying it as a regex ? instead of the literal) ? If anyone could shed any light on what is happening in this scenario I would be very appreciative.

Thanks,
Mike

[tdonovan]

You could try setting the AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack environment variable, which is described in the docs here.

-tom-

[denimpowell]

That worked perfectly, thanks!