Ross L Richardson([email protected]) on 2021.10.01 23:49:18 +1000:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 03:31:32PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> >[...]
> > To me it sounds like a feature. Assuming $REQUEST_METHOD is set to "HEAD" 
> > then
> > the CGI script can decide what to do.
> > 
> > So maybe it's just a bug in the ftplist.cgi script?
> >[...]
> 
> It's in violation of the RFC's "MUST NOT".
> 
> I neglected to mention that, *IIRC*, back in the Apache 1.3 days, CGI scripts
> could just treat HEAD like GET and the server would remove the body but
> report the Content-Length.

Indeed, this should be handled better by httpd(8), i think.

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