Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 178644
PerlSendHeader off doesn't work
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:09 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: PerlSendHeader off is required for perl scripts that produce their own http headers. The description of this option is available in the mod_perl documentation. With EL 3, setting this option results in Apache sending the script output as text/plain, i.e. Apache is adding http and content type headers before sending the script output, which makes mod_perl unusable for scripts which require non parsed headers. This doesn't happen with Apache 2.2.0 and mod_perl 2.0.2. An easy way to test this is to write a very simple perl script which sends the following: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html <html> <body> <h1>Testing</h1> </body> </html> Run that in a directory with the PerlSendHeader off option set, and you will get the above as text in a browser. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.99.09-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable mod_perl and the PerlSendHeader off option 2. Setup a non parsed headers script 3. Receive output as text/plain in browser Actual Results: Script output transmitted as text/plain Expected Results: Apache should not be adding http/content-type headers. Additional info:
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