To reiterate: the problem is not that my script is resulting in an error 500, that is not the issue.
The problem is that, if 'ErrorDocument 500' is set to 'default' then apache will appear to send a content-length of 0 and a content-type of "text/plain" (either that, or that is what firefox 2.0 and 3alpha interpret it as). Internet Explorer 6 renders the error properly but that is likely due to the fact that it will attempt to render anything no matter what state it is in.
When an 'ErrorDocument 500' directive is set to a cgi-script (perl, works fine otherwise, sends a 'Status' and 'Content-Type' header (also tried sending a 'Content-Length' header but that didn't seem to fly)) then apache will still send (or it gets read as) a content-type of text/plain, content-length of 0 and the server will occassionally send the full output, but, more often than not, the output will be cut off after the 1180'th character. This will happen in both IE 6, FF 2, and FF3alpha (minefield).
An example for the first case can be found here http://eighty-4.com/That should, if you are using seamonkey or firefox 2+, output the following (displayed as plaintext, and minus the dashes) when it should be sending it as text/html.
--------------------------------------------------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>500 Internal Server Error</title> </head><body> <h1>Internal Server Error</h1> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.</p> <p>Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.</p> <p>More information about this error may be available in the server error log.</p> </body></html> --------------------------------------------------------- Is this a known problem, is there a known workaround for this? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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