Re: Missing Mod_Access

Sander Temme <sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:50:41 -0800

Can Le,

On Jan 1, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Can Le wrote:

Happy New Year to Sander Temme

Thank you, happy new year to you too (and to all readers of  

users@httpd).

I do not have problem when I run my test.exe in Internet Explorer,  

however, Firefox gave me these errors and asked me to down load  

file test.exe, but Firefox did not run it on console:

The two browsers were written by different groups of programmers, and  

may respond differently under certain conditions.

logs/error: [Mon Jan 01 16:58:04 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]  

malformed header from //script. Bad /header=<p>: testlcd83c.exe,  

referer: http://localhost/cgi-bin/test1.cgi

So, your problem is with a CGI, not with a module.  This error  

message suggests that your testlcd83.exe (?) program writes HTML code  

to the browser without sending a proper HTTP header.  A properly  

formatted response has a set of HTTP headers, followed by the HTML  

code.  These are separated by a blank line.  If no headers are  

present, Apache thinks the HTML code your program writes (<p>) is  

intended to be a header, and will consider that invalid.

I am not sure what Apache does in such a situation, but the fact that  

you get the expected response in Explorer does suggest that the HTML  

code gets written to the browser, and it does not generate an error  

response.

As I said before, there are differences between various browsers.  I  

have the impression that Explorer does more inspection of the data  

that comes from the server, and makes its own decision on how to  

display it.  It looks like Firefox expects the (requisite) Content- 

type HTTP header, and in absence thereof offers to download the file.

logs/access: 127.0.0.1 - - [01/Jan/2007:17:01:41 -0600] "GET /cgi- 

bin/test1.exe HTTP/1.1" //200 190

This access log line does not correspond to the error log line you  

posted above: it has a different time and a different request  

(test1.exe vs. testlcd83c.exe). However, you can see that a 200 (OK)  

response was generated.

I did not reboost my windows XP Home and Apache2, but I restarted  

httpd.conf whenever I changed any line.

Please tell me what should I have for:
  LoadModule,

The requests you describe above seem to be CGI requests, and CGI  

programs are loaded from the file system.  They are not loaded  

through a LoadModule directive.

or
default type,
or <meta http-equiv=.... >
 or  :
application/octet
or
text/html

A CGI program is responsible for the entire response, including  

headers.   Apache does not add a Content-type header to the CGI  

output.  Your program has to take care of that.

Regards,

Sander

Thank you for helps

Can le

Sander Temme <sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Can Le,

On Dec 29, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Can Le wrote:

> I checked my httpd.conf and I am having mod_authz_host.so.

Please tell us in detail about the error you are referring to:

1) Do you see it when you try to start the server, or when you access
a URL on your server?

2) If the error occurs when you start the server: is there output  

on the

terminal window? What does it say? Is there error output in the
error_log?
3) If the error occurs when you access a URL on your server: what does
the error response say? Please turn off "Friendly Error Messages" in
Internet Explorer, or use Firefox for testing. What information
appears
in the access_log and the error_log when Apache generates the error
response?

Please provide as much information as you can, so we can help you
find the problem.

S.

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