Bug#475426: Incorrect Content-Length and Content-Type with "Premature end of script headers" error page
Package: apache2
Version: 2.2.3-4+etch4
If a CGI script dies without printing any headers to STDOUT, Apache
returns a "500 Internal Server Error" page and logs "Premature end of
script headers".
However, the error page returned to the visitor has incorrect headers.
It looks like this:
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:21:05 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_python/3.2.10 [etc.]
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
<!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 or
[etc.]
The "Content-Length: 0" and "Content-Type: text/plain" headers are both
wrong. These incorrect headers make some browsers (e.g., Konqueror) fail
to display the HTML content of the error page.
For comparison, Apache 2.0 sent the correct Content-Length and used the
correct "Content-Type: text/html" header.
This is easy to duplicate by creating a CGI script that contains nothing
more than:
#!/bin/sh
exit 0;
Thanks!
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Robert L Mathews
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