Re: HTTP protocol violation on your server (fwd)

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

I'll take this up with him.  I hand-checked all of the chunking code...
but you know...

Dean

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:

> 
> This is to do with chunked encoding. Takes a while for him to mention
> that fact.
> 
> no ack
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:40:22 +0000 (GMT)
> From: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> To: webmaster@hotwired.com
> Cc: apache-bugs@apache.org
> Subject: HTTP protocol violation on your server
> 
> Dear WebMaster @ Hotwired, apache-bugs,
> 
> [I do not know whether this is a fault in the Apache development server
> that www.hotwired.com is running or whether it is a fault in the custom
> code added by the HotWired team.  However, since the ApacheWeek
> newsletter indicates that the development team intend to release the
> full Apache 1.2 imminently, I have decided to copy apache-bugs on this
> e-mail directly in case it is an Apache fault]
> 
> When I tried to visit the HotWired site, my browser refused to download:
> <URL:http://www.hotwired.com/frontdoor/>
> 
> The reason it gave was an HTTP/1.1 protocol violation.  Upon running a
> debug version of my browser, I discovered that the server was attempting
> to use a chunked encoding but whenever a "local exec" chunk was in the
> data stream, the chunk size indicator that should have immediately
> preceded the output of the local exec was missing - a blank line was
> supplied instead.  I have made available a complete transcript of the HTTP
> transaction which demonstrates the output at
> <URL:http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/hotwired.transcript>
> This file does not contain the complete download as my client aborted the
> transfer when it became confused.  The fault occurs on the 29th line of
> that text file and at every point where the string "<!-- start local exec
> -->" appears.
> 
> Both Anselm Baird-Smith (abaird@w3.org) and I have noticed the same
> behaviour - he is using libwww version 5.xx and I'm using my own
> independent HTTP implementation.  This fault was observed with
> Apache/1.2b7-dev HotWired/1.1 but I forgot to report it then.  The
> fault still occurs as of March 10th 1997 with "Server: Apache/1.2b8-dev
> HotWired/1.1".
> 
> I hope that this provides enough information for the maintainers of
> whichever piece of software is failing here to locate and fix the bug.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/      http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
> 
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