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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com> on 1996/06/18 14:36:48 UTC

Re: CGI scripts don't work - "premature end of header"

Oh dear.

It's not yet clear if we intend to support inetd in the long term.

We'll look into this.

regards,
rob

>CGI scripts all fail with "Premature end of script headers" for me with
>with Apache 1.1b4.  They worked in 1.1.b2.
>
>I tracked this far enough to find that a call to cleanup_for_exec() in
>function cgi_child_stuff() in module mod_cgi closes the standard
>output file, which the CGI script needs to deliver its response to the
>server.  Removing the cleanup_for_exec() makes CGI scripts work again.
>
>This is on Linux 1.2.13 with Apache launched by inetd.
>
>-- 
>Bryan Henderson                                    Phone 408-227-6803
>San Jose, California


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