Re: Reproducable apache 1.3.26 /modproxy issue viewing www.kbb.com

Dear Geff,

I have sent the attached mail to the apache developers list back in May. I said
exactly the same thing, but the group decided that IIS bugs are not their
responsibility. This was very disappointing... I modified the proxy_cache code
myself 

--- apache_1.3.24/src/modules/proxy/proxy_cache.c       2002-03-13 23:05:32+02
+++ apache_1.3.24/src/modules/proxy/proxy_cache.c       2002-05-07 20:13:08+03
@@ -1477,6 +1487,10 @@
         ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG|APLOG_NOERRNO, r->server, "Expiry
date calculated %ld", (long)expc);
     }

+/* Ignore content-length on 304 reponse, buggy IIS sends it! */
+    if (r->status == HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED) {
+       ap_table_unset(resp_hdrs, "Content-Length");
+    }
 /* get the content-length header */
     clen = ap_table_get(resp_hdrs, "Content-Length");
     if (clen == NULL)

which is essentially what you suggest. It is frustrating to hear that other
people fall again and again to the same trap I fell into!

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:50:58 -0700, Geff wrote about "Re: Reproducable apache 1.3.26 /modproxy issue viewing www.kbb.com":
> I've written a patch that seems to address the problem.
> 
> I just wanted others to have the option to apply it.  I think it's
> ridiculous to have to break apache, an RFC compliant server to be able
> to view a website.  But what am I going to do about it? :)  The truth is
> the patch should remove ANY entity-header variable.  But I only chose to
> deal with the Content-Length variable in the short term.
> 
> Comments are welcome as always.
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Geff
> 
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 11:47, Graham Leggett wrote:
> > Geff wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd also like to say that this issue doesn't just affect the 'no-cache'
> > > case but it also seems to affect the case when the cache decides it
> > > needs to revalidate a resource with the original server.  The 'no-cache'
> > > method is just a convenient way to demonstrate the problem and force the
> > > cache to try to revalidate the resource.
> > 
> >  From what I understand this is caused by some buggy versions of IIS v5 
> > which send Content-Length: 0 along with 304 responses.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Graham
> > -- 
> > -----------------------------------------
> > [email protected] 
> > 	"There's a moon
> > 					over Bourbon Street
> > 						tonight..."
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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                                 Tuesday, 5 Elul 5762, 13 August 2002, 11:05AM