apache-api/3974: Apache API: mime type not determined for non-existing file

[Arjan Peddemors <ar...@wins.uva.nl>]

>Number:         3974
>Category:       apache-api
>Synopsis:       Apache API: mime type not determined for non-existing file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 26 03:50:01 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     arjan@wins.uva.nl
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.4
>Environment:
SunOS arches16 5.6 Generic_105182-10 i86pc i386 i86pc
cc: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2
Using DSO
>Description:
If a client request with a certain URI, say http://myhost/test/test.html,
translates into a file that does not exist under the doucment root, the
mime type of this non-existing file is not determined. Normally, this is
not a problem, because if a file does not exist you cannot return it, so
it's not necessary to indicate a mime type. My module, however, is fetching
the data from somewhere else, not from the local filesystem. At the same
time, the module would like the server core to determine the mime type.
The handler in the module receives a request_req (r) in which r->content_type
is set to NULL and the r->filename is set to something like <doc_root>/test
i.s.o. <doc_root>/test/test.html as I would expect.
>How-To-Repeat:
Write a small test module that defines a handler for all mime types
("*/*"). Check the request_rec argument of the handler when trying to
fetch a non-existing object.
>Fix:
In http_request.c, you already indicate that you would like to determine
the mime type, even if the file does not exist:
>    /*
>     * Are we dealing with a file? If not, we can (hopefuly) safely assume we
>     * have a handler that doesn't require one, but for safety's sake, and so
>     * we have something find_types() can get something out of, fake one. But
>     * don't run through the directory entries.
>     */
>
>    if (r->filename == NULL) {
>        r->filename = ap_pstrdup(r->pool, r->uri);
>        r->finfo.st_mode = 0;   /* Not really a file... */
>        r->per_dir_config = per_dir_defaults;
>
>        return OK;
>    }

This does not seem to work for this specific situation (r->filename
is not NULL).

A workaround for the handler in my module, without having to change the
server core, looks like this:
>  tmp = r->filename;
>  r->filename = r->uri;
>  mime_module->type_checker(r);
>  r->filename = tmp;

During initialization, a pointer to the mime module is obtained by doing:
>  mime_module = ap_find_linked_module("mod_mime.c");
>Audit-Trail:
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