Bug 480932

Summary: mod_cgi: error pages have wrong headers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
Component: httpdAssignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
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Version: 5.1CC: cward, ohudlick, ralph, tao
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Description Tomas Smetana 2009-01-21 13:10:48 UTC 
Description of problem:
The "500 Internal Server Error" page is not correctly displayed in case of invalid cgi script.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.3

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install httpd
2. service httpd start (i.e., use default configuration)
3. echo "foo" > /var/www/cgi-bin/script.cgi
4. chmod a+x /var/www/cgi-bin/script.cgi
5. curl -is http://localhost/cgi-bin/script.cgi
6. Examine the response
  
Actual results:
The header looks like this (wrong Content-Length and Content-Type)

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:02:35 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

(and nothing else is printed by curl)

Expected results:
Something like this

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:01:18 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
Content-Length: 609
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

(and the html error document is printed)

Additional info:
This is a known problem solved in newer releases.
Upstream bug: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39710
Fedora bug #209605
Comment 1 Tomas Smetana 2009-01-21 13:13:18 UTC 
Created attachment 329600 [details]
Proposed patch (backported)
Comment 5 Chris Ward 2009-07-03 18:21:36 UTC 
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Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:50:08 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1380.html