ErrorDocument doesn't work as documented in 1.1b3 (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

Not acked.

did this ever work after 0.6*   ?



Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:47:16 -0400
Message-Id: <OA...@catapult.va.pubnix.com>
From: David J MacKenzie <dj...@va.pubnix.com>
To: apache-bugs@apache.org
cc: djm@va.pubnix.com
Subject: ErrorDocument doesn't work as documented in 1.1b3
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From: David MacKenzie <dj...@va.pubnix.com>
Subject: ErrorDocument with a string constant prints the " and %s literally
Affects: src/http_request.c src/http_protocol.c
ChangeLog: Neither die() nor send_error_response() does the documented
 conversions, just a literal bputs(). 
Comments: 
I put in a .htaccess:
ErrorDocument 404 "Hey, what's going on? %s
Then I GET a bogus URL from that server:

djm@catapult 4 $ httpget -x http://wwwcharlotte/flummox
HTTP/1.0 404 Not found
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 18:33:37 GMT
Server: Apache/1.1b3
Content-type: text/html

"Hey, what's going on? %sdjm@catapult 5 $ 

According to http://www.apache.org/docs/custom-error.html this is
wrong; it shouldn't print the " and should expand the %s to additional
information about the error.  As far as I can tell, the documented
behavior is simply unimplemented.

----- End of forwarded message from David J MacKenzie -----

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