slowstopper for 1.3.21?

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

I just tested with the correct Host: header (wasn't sure if he had not
formatted the request) and came up with forbidden as well.

Ideas?  I have no time to investigate today.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tommi Pitkänen" <to...@not.for.spam.tut.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: Bug in Apache?


> RFC 2616 states:
>
> 9.2 OPTIONS
>
>   If the Request-URI is an asterisk ("*"), the OPTIONS request is
>   intended to apply to the server in general rather than to a specific
>   resource. Since a server's communication options typically depend on
>   the resource, the "*" request is only useful as a "ping" or "no-op"
>   type of method; it does nothing beyond allowing the client to test
>   the capabilities of the server. For example, this can be used to test
>   a proxy for HTTP/1.1 compliance (or lack thereof).
>
> My Apache 1.3.20 (Win32) says:
>
> Apache-access.log:
> [28/Sep/2001:19:12:47 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1" 403 288
>
> Apache-error.log:
> [Fri Sep 28 19:12:47 2001] [error] Filename is not valid d:/wwwroot/*
>
> Is this a bug in the win32-version?
>
> PS. "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" works just fine.