On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Aaron Bannert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:51:51AM +0200, Sander Striker wrote: > > 62.211.25.97 - - [26/Jun/2002:04:55:35 +0200] "GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.1" >200 1456 > > >^^^ > > I went: "uh, why isn't that 4xx??". > > I tried it myself and it seems that we are returning the contents of / (which > > is the default page installed by apache in my case) instead of failing. This > > is with HEAD. > > Sounds like a bug in the request-line parser. Until this gets fixed, > maybe it is something to add to STATUS?
That is the correct behavior!!! According to the RFC, we have to support fully-qualified URL's in the request (eg "http://www.yahoo.com/"; here). So Apache sees that request, notices that it doesn't have a matching virtual host, reverts to the default host, and serves up the URI "/", which exists. 200 is correct. Now if you asked for "http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/"; or something, then unless "/Computers_and_Internet/" happens to be valid in the namespace of your default vhost, you'll get the typical 404. All of this is completely normal. --Cliff
