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Bug#381570: marked as done (HEAD does not serve <meta http-equiv> headers)

Your message dated Sat, 5 Aug 2006 16:56:51 +0100
with message-id <20060805155651.GA16961@lapse.madduck.net>
and subject line libwww-perl is at fault
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Package: apache2
Version: 2.0.55-4
Severity: minor

RFC 2616 says:

   "The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to
   a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in
   response to a GET request."

This is not the case in apache2 (up to and including 2.2.3). If
I fire off a GET request, I get the HTTP response headers, plus the
ones added by the CGI or <meta http-equiv> for static files. If
I just fire a HEAD request, only the apache-generated headers are
served. It seems as if apache2 does not actually look at the
file/content to serve, it just provides the meta information (like
size), along with some defaults (text/html).

lapse:~> (HEAD http://martin-krafft.net/phd/;
          GET -esd http://martin-krafft.net/phd/) \
            | egrep '^(..[[:upper:]]|Content-Type)' 
HEAD http://martin-krafft.net/phd/
Content-Type: text/html
GET http://martin-krafft.net/phd/
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

I am only making this a minor bug because the RFC only says SHOULD.
Damn RFC. :)

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Sorry for this bug report. libwww-perl was smarter than I thought...
Using netcat shows that apache2 is already doing the right thing:

diamond:~> nc martin-krafft.net 80 <<_eof | sed -rne '0,/^[[:space:]]*$/{/^Date:/d;p}' | md5sum     
GET /phd/ HTTP/1.1
Host: martin-krafft.net
    
_eof           
28149a1d07bf15a566bf12f98aa1b421  -

diamond:~> nc martin-krafft.net 80 <<_eof | sed -rne '0,/^[[:space:]]*$/{/^Date:/d;p}' | md5sum
HEAD /phd/ HTTP/1.1 
Host: martin-krafft.net
    
_eof
28149a1d07bf15a566bf12f98aa1b421  -

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