From nobody@hyperreal.com  Wed Dec 18 09:48:09 1996
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:48:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew Vandergrift <mattv@e-net.com>
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To: apbugs@hyperreal.com
Subject: AOL does not accept Apache servers
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>Number:         49
>Category:       protocol
>Synopsis:       AOL does not accept Apache servers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 18 09:50:01 1996
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jan 23 15:43:10 PST 1997
>Originator:     mattv@e-net.com
>Organization:
>Release:        1.2b2
>Environment:
SGI Irix 5.3 / Apache 1.2b2 / Irix IDO and GCC 2.7.2 compilers.
>Description:
America Online issues an error about incompatible protocol versions when
attempting to access a site running on Apache 1.2.  This happens on all
sites we were able to test version 3 of AOLs browser on.  This did not happen
immediately after installing Apache 1.2 but rather it has been happening since
Friday 13th (heh)...this was almost a week after installing the upgraded version,
I think.
>How-To-Repeat:
Our site www.e-net.com as well as your site www.apache.org (and I'd assume
www.hyperreal.com) fail with version 3 of AOLs browser.
>Fix:
Since this happened about a week AFTER I installed the 1.2b1/2 upgrades, I'd
assume AOL has an incompatibility with HTTP1.1 and is explicitly blocking sites
returning HTTP/1.1 as protocol level.  This is only a semi-educated guess
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: fielding
State-Changed-When: Thu Jan 23 15:43:10 PST 1997
State-Changed-Why:

AOL fixed the bug in their proxy code.

>Unformatted: