Hi there,
Today I was checking if it'd be possible to use squid to proxy FTP HEAD
requests for me, and although I found that this is handled in src/ftp.c
and using libwww-perl's GET to issue a HEAD request on an existent file
gave me a 200 OK response, I noticed that I'll always get a 200 OK
response, even when the file in question doesn't exist:
(existing file)
GET -m HEAD -u -p http://proxy:3128/
ftp://ftp.easynet.be/ubuntu-iso/6.06/ubuntu-6.06.1-alternate-amd64.iso
HEAD ftp://ftp.easynet.be/ubuntu-iso/6.06/foo
200 OK
...
(non-existing file)
GET -m HEAD -u -p http://proxy:3128/
ftp://ftp.easynet.be/ubuntu-iso/6.06/foo
HEAD ftp://ftp.easynet.be/ubuntu-iso/6.06/foo
200 OK
...
So, is this the intended behaviour? If so, would it be possible to
workaround it and have a 404 response in the latter case?
If not, should I file a bug about it? How hard would it be to fix?
Cheers,
--
Guilherme Luis R. Salgado
