On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Sacha Varma <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been unable to google up the answer to this, so if anyone can help it > would be much appreciated. > > The CGI standard (RFC 3875, 6.3.3) allows a CGI script to output an HTTP > status code header (e.g. 'Status: 404 Not Found'). A response body is > optional. > > My CGI program outputs just this status header in certain situations, with > no body, and I would like Apache to serve the configured ErrorDocument when > this happens. It is relaying the HTTP status correctly, but at the moment it > seems to serve the CGI response's body, whether or not there is one, rather > than falling through to error handling. In other words, I see an empty > response, rather than the usual Apache 404 page. > > Is there a simple way to change this behaviour? > > 2.0.53 is what I've been developing with, if that's relevant.
Generally, Apache only uses an ErrorDocument when the status code is set by the Apache module, not just when it's forwarded by some other application/server. Internally, the status code for the response is separate from the "return code" for the handler -- ErrroDocuments are related to the return codes for the handler itself. -- Eric Covener [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] " from the digest: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
