Before filing a bug report, I want to check with the list to see if I'm missing something or if this is a known bug and I just haven't found it in the database.
I'm upgrading my server and Apache will be jumping from 2.0.46 to 2.2.3. I noticed when testing things on the new box that Apache's behavior when an error occurs has changed. On the older server, when an error occurs, the ErrorDocument 500 directive is consulted, and the page specified by that directive is sent back to the client with proper HTTP headers. For example: $ telnet www.rksystems.com 80 Trying 66.92.147.60... Connected to www.rksystems.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /cgi-bin/barf.py HTTP/1.1 Host: www.rksystems.com:80 HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:30:02 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Content-Length: 668 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>500 Internal Server Error</title> </head><body> <h1>Internal Server Error</h1> <p>The server encountered an internal error ...</p> ... </body></html> Connection closed by foreign host. With the new version of Apache, however, the content length is reported as 0 (which makes the browser think the document is empty) and the content type is given as text/x-python, causing the browser to open a Save dialog box instead of displaying the error 500 document: $ telnet debian.rksystems.com 80 Trying 66.92.147.178... Connected to debian.rksystems.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /cgi-bin/barf.py HTTP/1.1 Host: debian.rksystems.com:80 HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:16:46 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/x-python <html> <head> <title>Script Failure</title> </head> <body> Boo-boo! </body> </html> Connection closed by foreign host. Is this a known bug? Is there some configuration directive I haven't found for convincing Apache to send back the right values (as it used to)? Many thanks! -- Bob Kline http://www.rksystems.com mailto:[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]
