> At the moment I can't reproduce this issue any more. It happened
> some days ago, when I was viewing the webapp by Firefox and
> pressed F5 several times, when I noticed that Firefox sometimes
> displayed HTTP Headers as plain text. I used a network sniffer to
> see what the responses looked like, and found that HTTP 304
> responses with a chunked body (which all belonged to
> images (png, jpeg) and css files).
OK, I have experimented a bit and can reproduce the issue (with the unfixed
version of ISAPI redirector 1.2.31).
I have used a webapp with custom Error pages (static html files). My web.xml
looks like this:
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/WEB-INF/errorpages/404.htm</location>
</error-page>
Now if I do a GET-Request with an "If-modified-since" header to a file which
doesn't exist, Tomcat returns a 302 Not Modified response instead of 404 Not
Found. I think this is because Tomcat compares the date after the
"Is-modified-since" header to the date of the static 404 error file, thus
returning 302 instead of 404.
If such a request to an non-existing file is processed through the ISAPI
redirector, it used transfer-encoding chunked.
Example:
Client:
GET /AUrlToAFileWhichDoesNotExist.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.net
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:07:52 GMT
Server:
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:20:52 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
ETag: W/"1285-1289228872000"
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
0
But if you request a file which does exist, it uses the Content-length: 0
header.
Server:
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:21:41 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
ETag: W/"1150-1290883084000"
Content-Length: 0
Now the problem is, why is Tomcat returning a 302 Not Modified status for
the static 404 errorpage, instead of 404 Not found? Is this a Tomcat bug, or
have I done something wrong in my web.xml? I am using Tomcat 7.0.5.
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