PUT handling (somewhat off-topic)

[Mark-Jason Dominus <mj...@plover.com>]

I apologize in advance, because this isn't directly related to
mod_perl.  But I really wasn't sure where to ask.  Posting to
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix didn't produce any result.  There
doesn't seem to be a mailing list for discussion of Apache generally.

I am trying to get apache to invoke a CGI program in response to PUT
requests.  This is a FAQ.  The FAQ instructions are very clear and
straightforward and don't work for me.

I have the following in the VirtualHost section in my httpd.conf:

       Script PUT /cgi-bin/Put

/cgi-bin is ScriptAliased correctly.  /cgi-bin/Put has permissions set
propserly and runs correctly from the shell and also when I send
Apache a GET request for it.

When I send Apache a PUT request using 'telnet', the request is
received.  However, my PUT script does not run.  Instead, Apache
fabricates a 200 response that looks like this:

        HTTP/1.1 200 OK
        Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 08:57:12 GMT
        Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.19
        Connection: close
        Content-Type: text/html

the body of the response is empty.

I know that /cgi-bin/Put isn't being run because it would have
produced a 206 response, not a 200 response,  because it would have produced
a nonempty body, and because it would have written a log to
/tmp/Put.err, which it didn't do.

The access log entry looks like this:

        209.152.205.5 - - [05/Sep/2000:04:57:12 -0400] "PUT /~mjd/p/index.html HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "-"

There is no entry in the error log.

I get the same behavior when I put the 'Script' directive into a
<Directory> section and send a PUT request for a file in the
directory.  

I don't want Apache to respond to the PUT request itself.  I want it
to run /cgi-bin/Put and have /cgi-bin/Put generate the response.  The
on-line manual and the FAQ all say that the

       Script PUT /cgi-bin/Put

directive that I have should do that, but it isn't doing it.  Does
anyone have any suggestions about what might be wrong, or about a more
appropriate forum in which to ask?