Hello all,
We have an Apache 2.2 that we're using to proxy requests out to an
external service, and have noticed that for HEAD responses where the
content-length is 0, Apache seems to be dropping off the
content-length response header.
This is the verbose curl for the HEAD request when going direct to the service:
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> HEAD /blobstore/client/localhost/context/bar/blob/pdv-key HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: localhost:8080
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Length: 0
Content-Length: 0
< ETag: da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
ETag: da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
< Connection: close
Connection: close
<
* Closing connection 0
This is the verbose curl for the HEAD request when going through the
Apache proxy (vhost that forwards requests to port 8108 to
localhost:8080):
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8108 (#0)
> HEAD /blobstore/client/localhost/context/bar/blob/pdv-key HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: localhost:8108
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:57:19 GMT
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:57:19 GMT
< ETag: da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
ETag: da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
< Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Type: text/plain
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
The latter response has a missing content-length.
Some observations:
- The content-length header is not dropped if the value is not zero.
- The content-length header is not dropped for GET requests even if
the value is zero.
- The service doesn't use chunked transfer encoding, and for a 0
length content nothing should be chunking.
While we're actually using 2.2.3, I've tested it on 2.2.29 compiled
with SSL, log-config, proxy, proxy-connect, and proxy-load-balancer on
an Ubuntu 14.04 instance with the same result. In terms of
configuration, I have just created a standard virtual host with a
ProxyPass. Also tried it with/without the proxy-sendcl environment
variable set with no difference. The config is below:
Listen 8108
NameVirtualHost *:8108
<VirtualHost *:8108>
ServerName localhost
SSLProxyEngine On
ProxyPassInterpolateEnv On
LogFormat "%h %{X-Forwarded-For}i %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %D
\"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined-timed
CustomLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/proxy_log combined-timed
<Location />
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
</Location>
SetEnv proxy-sendcl 1
ProxyPass /blobstore http://localhost:8080/blobstore max=100
retry=60 ttl=60 timeout=30
</VirtualHost>
It seems like this issue:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18757 but that
should have been fixed a long time ago.
Any thoughts? Is this a known issue with a workaround or should I
raise a bug for it?
Regards,
Sidney
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