From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Proxy configured with: <Location /vdradmin/> ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8001/ </Location> Apache's response is: HTTP/1.1 401 Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:39:10 GMT Server: vdradmind/0.13 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Privat" Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 369 Connection: close The empty line between the HTTP and the Date line prevents any browser from interpreting the header. The empty line is only inserted if the webserver the proxy points to does not send any text after the response number (i.e. "HTTP/1.1 401" instead of "HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required"). httpd-2.0.40-11.3 sends a line of garbage characters instead of an empty line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.0.40-21.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: configure a proxy to any web server that does not send text after the response number, and then telnet localhost 80 GET /vdradmin/ HTTP/1.0 Actual Results: HTTP/1.1 401 Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:39:10 GMT Server: vdradmind/0.13 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Privat" Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 369 Connection: close Expected Results: HTTP/1.1 401 Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:39:10 GMT Server: vdradmind/0.13 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Privat" Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 369 Connection: close or an error message ("BadProxy" or similar) Additional info:
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed for the next erratum.
An errata 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 the 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/RHSA-2003-186.html