have a look at Apache::RedirectLogFix
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mark Nudelman wrote:
> I'm writing my first module using modperl, so I'm probably doing
> something really wrong, but I haven't been able to figure this out. I
> want my script to return an HTTP error code to the client, and I want
> that error code to be logged to the httpd access log. If I use this
> script:
> my $r = Apache->request;
> $r->status(304);
> everything works as expected: the client receives a "304 Not Modified"
> status line, and the log shows a "304" status.
>
> But if I do this:
> $r->status(304);
> $r->err_header_out("X-Test-Header" => "abc");
> $r->send_http_header();
> then the client still receives the 304 status as expected, as well as
> the extra header, but the log shows a status of 200, not 304. In fact,
> the err_header_out doesn't matter; if I just call send_http_header, the
> log shows 200. How can I make the log show the correct status?
>
> Another problem is that in some cases, such as if I return a "400 Bad
> Request" status, I'm getting a "Connection: close" header as well. Is
> there any way I can control this? I don't want to send a Connection:
> close header, even if I return an error status.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> --Mark
>
