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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Ryan Bloom <rb...@covalent.net> on 2002/06/12 23:22:06 UTC

RE: bogus methods return 500 not 501

Just looked at Apache 1.3, we used to return 501.

Ryan

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Ryan Bloom                  rbb@covalent.net
645 Howard St.              rbb@apache.org
San Francisco, CA 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cliff Woolley [mailto:jwoolley@virginia.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:09 PM
> To: dev@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: bogus methods return 500 not 501
> 
> 
> And what's with this?
> 
> root@deepthought:/root# telnet cvs.apache.org 80
> Trying 63.251.56.143...
> Connected to cvs.apache.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GRRR / HTTP/1.0
> Host: cvs.apache.org
> 
> HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:08:42 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.0.37 (Unix)
> Vary: accept-language
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 761
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Expires: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:08:42 GMT
> 
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> ...snip...
> 
> 
> Note: a request of simply "GRRR" rather than "GRRR / HTTP/1.0" also
return
> 500.  I'd guess that one should be 400, maybe 501, but 500 doesn't
seem
> right.
> 
> sigh.
> 
> --Cliff