Common httpd.conf comes without force-no-vary option set for some stupid browsers. I think something like this could save time for users trying to resolve really strange errors: BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1 BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1 BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary I found this somewhere on the internet, i'm very sure about MSIE (spent about 2 hours with this crapy browser) not so sure about Mozilla 4.xx.
please describe what exact errors this 'fixes'. 'really strange errors' is not acceptable.
With the move to the new-style configuration, we have opted to keep our config as close as possible to upstream defaults. These lines are not in upstream's configuration, so they won't be added to our, unless it is a serious security concern, which these do not appear to be. Upstream default: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/docs/conf/httpd-std.conf.in
Main error was that with mod_rewrite all dots in Microsoft Excel filenames was replaced by underscores. E.g. instead of downloading text.xls.xls MSIE asked for downloading test_xls_xls. Who knows what exactly was MSIE doing, because there were test.xls.xls correctly in log. But i'm completely sure that this solved the problem as also described here: http://archive.apache.org/gnats/4118 I'll post to Apache directly, as it's not serious security problem but i think it may be another lines to "Misconfigured Browsers" section. Thanks for reply.
