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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 06:22:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>
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To: apbugs@hyperreal.com
Subject: Redirects caused by missing trailing / not cachable
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>Number:         77
>Category:       mod_dir
>Synopsis:       Redirects caused by missing trailing / not cachable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan  3 06:30:01 1997
>Last-Modified:  Fri Feb  7 16:39:45 PST 1997
>Originator:     mgyger@itr.ch
>Organization:
>Release:        1.2b4
>Environment:
HP-UX 10.20, HP ANSI-C compiler 10.32.07
>Description:
If someone omits the trailing slash for a directory index, apache send
a temporary redirect command (status 302). However, these are not cachable
by caching proxy servers. Replacing it by status 301 (permanent redirect)
would make them cachable.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ telnet www.apache.org http
GET /images HTTP/1.0


This responds with:
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://www.apache.org/images/
[...]
>Fix:
--- o/apache_1.2b4/src/mod_dir.c        Sun Dec  1 21:28:59 1996
+++ apache_1.2b4/src/mod_dir.c  Fri Jan  3 15:02:58 1997
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@

        table_set (r->headers_out, "Location",
                   construct_url(r->pool, ifile, r->server));
-       return REDIRECT;
+       return MOVED;
     }

     /* KLUDGE --- make the sub_req lookups happen in the right directory.
%0
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: marc
State-Changed-When: Fri Feb  7 16:39:44 PST 1997
State-Changed-Why:
Fixed in revision 1.21 of mod_dir.c, which will be available
in the next beta.
>Unformatted: