Just looked at Apache 1.3, we used to return 501. Ryan
---------------------------------------------- Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 645 Howard St. [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Francisco, CA > -----Original Message----- > From: Cliff Woolley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: bogus methods return 500 not 501 > > > And what's with this? > > root@deepthought:/root# telnet cvs.apache.org 80 > Trying 63.251.56.143... > Connected to cvs.apache.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > GRRR / HTTP/1.0 > Host: cvs.apache.org > > HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:08:42 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.37 (Unix) > Vary: accept-language > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 761 > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Expires: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:08:42 GMT > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > ...snip... > > > Note: a request of simply "GRRR" rather than "GRRR / HTTP/1.0" also return > 500. I'd guess that one should be 400, maybe 501, but 500 doesn't seem > right. > > sigh. > > --Cliff