The following reply was made to PR general/2797; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Frank Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/2797: 403 - Forbidden when errno=ETIMEDOUT Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 07:58:09 +0200 (MEST) > Synopsis: 403 - Forbidden when errno=ETIMEDOUT > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: coar > State-Changed-When: Wed May 5 14:42:38 PDT 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > > This is a deliberate decision. If a resource is not > available, Apache returns 403 rather than revealing > information about whether the resource actually exists > or not. I think it would be a good idea to make this configurable, ala mapping between system's errno and HTTP status. - Frank -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ Work: Computing Services, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
