Re: Newline and tab escaping in Apache's error_log

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Sam Tregar wrote:
> Hello all.  Does anyone know why Apache (v1.3.33) is escaping newlines
> and tabs in my error logs?  I'm seeing stuff like:
> 
>    [Thu Jun  2 18:54:18 2005] [error] Error executing run mode 'process':
>    Unable to find message named 'city_missing' in messages.conf. at
>    /home/sam/projectx/lib/Projectx/Message.pm line
>    131\n\tProjectx::Message::add_message('city_missing') called at
>    /home/sam/projectx/lib/Projectx/Form.pm line
>    183\n\tProjectx::Form::_errs_to_messages('Arc..
> 
> That can get pretty unreadable for dead stack traces.  Any idea how to
> turn it off?

It's a fairly recent change to apache since some characters could cause
problems for some text viewers thus creating a security hole (if your
text reader isnt smart enough).

You can turn it off by building apache like so:

CFLAGS="-DAP_UNSAFE_ERROR_LOG_UNESCAPED" ./configure
make ...

        -- 
        Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP