Apache 1.3b4-dev sends empty Content-Encoding header (fwd)

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

As discovered by Brian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon,  9 Feb 98 12:34:09 +0100
From: Jean-Francois Groff <jf...@infodesign.ch>
To: apache-bugs@apache.org
Subject: Apache 1.3b4-dev sends empty Content-Encoding header

	Hello,

  When opening the Apache site today, my browser (OmniWeb 2.7b3) opened  
the HTML externally instead of rendering it in its window. As this was  
very surprising and never happened before, I suspected that something  
changed in your server headers, and indeed I found that on certain pages,  
Apache/1.3b4-dev now sends an empty Content-Encoding header. Apparently  
this affects pages whose content type is not derived from the file  
extension ".html", i.e. directory index mappings (like your home page) or  
script output (like your bug reports form). I have attached two manual  
HTTP requests to illustrate the issue.

  Hope this helps,

    Jean-Francois Groff <jf...@infodesign.net>  (NeXT-Mail & MIME OK)
    Founder, InfoDesign Ltd.                   Tel: +41-22-771.0440
    Professional Web Services since 1992       Fax: +41-22-771.0441
    Mail: 1 chemin Plein-Vent, CH-1228 Geneva-Arare, Switzerland

miranda> telnet www.apache.org 80
Trying 204.62.130.149... Connected to www.apache.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 09:03:26 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3b4-dev
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Expires: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:03:26 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Encoding:

Connection closed by foreign host.
miranda> telnet www.apache.org 80
Trying 204.62.130.149... Connected to www.apache.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /index.html HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:32:28 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3b4-dev
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Expires: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:32:28 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.
miranda>

Re: Apache 1.3b4-dev sends empty Content-Encoding header (fwd)

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

Fixed in the current CVS tree, soon running on www.apache.org.

At 10:28 PM 2/11/98 +0000, Rob Hartill wrote:
>
>As discovered by Brian


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