>Number: 5091 >Category: config >Synopsis: Form handling: Upload = server error when no file is specified >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 1 15:20:01 PDT 1999 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.6 >Environment: Linux 2.2.5-15 (Redhat 6.0 distrib). Perl 5.005, w/ CGI.pm >Description: I'm testing using a html & perl script pair of files that are commonly used for file-upload. They are publicly available on: http://www.terminalp.com/scripts/file_upload.shtml
When a file is specified, it will succeed by uploading the file and displaying the results page. However, if the filename is left blank, there is a server error, and the apache log file indicates "premature end of script headers." When running the same script using NetscapeFastrack/Unix instead of Apache/Linux, this bug is not encountered. I am not absolutely sure of which software is faulty, but suspect Apache, and am thankful for the free Apache server regardless. >How-To-Repeat: http://www.terminalp.com/scripts/file_upload.shtml the above URL provides the sample code which uniquely does not work on Apache/Linux. >Fix: Perhaps there is an HTML-side fix where you can give the <INPUT Type=FILE> a default value, so that it is not null passed to Apache. This is an unknown workaround, and a true fix may need another patch to apatchy. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, you need] [to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line and make sure the] [subject line starts with the report component and number, with ] [or without any 'Re:' prefixes (such as "general/1098:" or ] ["Re: general/1098:"). If the subject doesn't match this ] [pattern, your message will be misfiled and ignored. The ] ["apbugs" address is not added to the Cc line of messages from ] [the database automatically because of the potential for mail ] [loops. If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request from a ] [developer. Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
