Re: Pattern matching odd HTTP request

["Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron () the-infinite org>]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:

[snip]

> 1 client connects to server
> 2 when socket is connected, client send http headers (accept/host/...)
> 3 client issues a request (see rfc2616 for that) like GET / HTTP/1.1
>   followed by two carriage returns

I hate to be pendantic, but the following is the order of HTTP headers:

nedominic@is:~ > netcat -l -p 5000
GET / HTTP/1.0
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686)
Host: is:5000
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png,
*/*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8

dominic@is:~ > 

In other words, your step 2 and 3 should be in the opposite order.

> 4 server starts processing the request (filtering headers and uri
>   information through the stack of configured modules)

> i hope this shed a little light on the issue.

Ditto.


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