The following reply was made to PR general/2275; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Vladislav Malyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/2275: mailformed header in the case of 503 code Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:56:43 -0400 (EDT) It looks like missed fields in header is because of Apache, and not because of external script: example: (it prints Last-Modified, etc, it looks like a plain file) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/clr/correlations/doc: telnet www.arm.uk.linux.org 80 Trying 163.164.160.3... Connected to snowcrash.cymru.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable Content-Type: text/html Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:34:12 GMT <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Problem Report</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <B><FONT SIZE=+1>Problem Report</FONT></B> <P>HTTP Error <B>503</B> occurred while attempting to retrieve the URL: '<B>http://163.164.160.3/</B>'.<BR><HR WIDTH="100%"> <B>Problem Description:</B><BR>Connect failed to server '163.164.160.3'.<BR><BR><CENTER><TABLE BORDER COLS=2 WIDTH="100%" ><TR> <TD><B>Possible Problem Cause</B></TD><TD><B>Solutions</B></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>The server is busy</TD> <TD>Try again, later</TD> </TR></TABLE></CENTER><BR><HR WIDTH="100%"> </BODY></HTML>Connection closed by foreign host. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/clr/correlations/doc: telnet www.arm.uk.linux.org 80 Trying 163.164.160.3... Connected to snowcrash.cymru.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:38:15 GMT Server: Apache/1.2.5 Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:30:27 GMT ETag: "e839-519-33fd7853" Content-Length: 1305 Accept-Ranges: none Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Connection closed by foreign host. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/clr/correlations/doc: On Sun, 24 May 1998, Marc Slemko wrote: > On 24 May 1998, Vladislav Malyshkin wrote: > > > > > >Number: 2275 > > >Category: general > > >Synopsis: mailformed header in the case of 503 code > > >Confidential: no > > >Severity: non-critical > > >Priority: medium > > >Responsible: apache > > >State: open > > >Class: sw-bug > > >Submitter-Id: apache > > >Arrival-Date: Sun May 24 15:50:00 PDT 1998 > > >Last-Modified: > > >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Organization: > > apache > > >Release: 1.3b6 > > >Environment: > > Linux RedHat 5.0 gcc > > >Description: > > In the case of 503 code server prints mailformed header: > > (It does not print > > Server: > > Connection: close > > etc.) > > > > This error happens on servers running Apache 1.2.6 and 1.3b6 > > Erm... what is your connection to freshmeat.net? > > Why do you say the header is malformed? It is not normal, but just > because it doesn't print all the headers it normally does doesn't mean it > is "malformed". > > > > > > Example: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp: telnet freshmeat.net 80 > > Trying 199.183.24.237... > > Connected to freshmeat.net. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > HEAD / HTTP/1.0 > > > > HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable > > Content-Type: text/html > > Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 22:31:58 GMT > > Are you sure this is being generated by Apache? It is a 1.0 response, so > either the server is configured in a special way or this is really some > other script returning the headers. > > There is nothing in the output you give that I notice as being invalid. > Not usual, but certainly possible to setup Apache to generate. > >
