Bug 162829

Summary: tux webserver rfc comliance
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: J. Nick Koston <nick>
Component: tuxAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0   
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.2
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Description J. Nick Koston 2005-07-09 00:50:43 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050523 CentOS/1.0.4-1.4.1.centos4 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
an OPTIONS request always returns a 404 (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. telnet tuxserver 80
OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost


Actual Results:  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Expected Results:  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
Allow: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, OPTIONS


Additional info:

Causes failure when downloading files.. which prevents updates/sec
Breaks rpm 4.4.1

# rpm -Uvh  http://diff.cpanel.net/exim-cpanel7.2.0/exim-4.51-6_cpanel_smtpctl_av_rewrite_mm2_mmmtrap_exiscan_md5pass.src.rpm
Retrieving http://diff.cpanel.net/exim-cpanel7.2.0/exim-4.51-6_cpanel_smtpctl_av_rewrite_mm2_mmmtrap_exiscan_md5pass.src.rpm
error: skipping http://diff.cpanel.net/exim-cpanel7.2.0/exim-4.51-6_cpanel_smtpctl_av_rewrite_mm2_mmmtrap_exiscan_md5pass.src.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: _url_cache[0] 0x807f538 nrefs(134739815) != 1 ( )
Comment 1 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:18:44 UTC 
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