Re: mod_cgi/1960: Apache - broken CGI interface?

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Synopsis: Apache - broken CGI interface?

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: coar
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan  4 12:34:52 PST 1999
State-Changed-Why:

On re-reading this, I think I see what's going on.
Yes, a CONTENT_LENGTH metavariable MUST be supplied by
a CGI/1.1-compliant server when starting a script and
supplying a content-body.  It is based on HTTP/1.0 in
this regard, and HTTP/1.1 for bodies that aren't
sent with chunked transfer-encoding.  Chunked T-E isn't
supported by CGI/1.1 at all.  It looks as though something
is trying to hand a chunked body to a CGI script, and
that's bogus.  For CGI/1.1, if the server passes a body,
then it must also pass a CONTENT_LENGTH metavariable.