[Zope] Apache 2 : stuck fixing content-length HTTP header

[Gilles Lenfant]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
To: "Gilles Lenfant" <gilles@pilotsystems.net>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Apache 2 : stuck fixing content-length HTTP header


> Gilles Lenfant wrote at 2003-7-9 21:30 +0200:
>  > This is not - strictly speaking - a Zope problem, but perhaps it's a
fixed
>  > issue for some of you.
>  >
>  > When using the standard RewriteRule scheme with a VirtualHost monster,
>  > Apache 2 removes the "content-length" HTTP header from the response
provided
>  > by Zope.
>
> The "Content-Length" header is quite essential...
>
> What about a bug report for Apache 2?

Hi Dieter,

After a quick investigation, I found reports about this in the Apache 2
bugzilla. Cocoon users found that bug too...

 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15859

 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18757

The headers returned by Zope...

<headers>
server : Zope/(Zope 2.6.1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python
2.1.3, freebsd4) ZServer/1.1b1
content-type : application/pdf
accept-ranges : bytes
date : Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:33:13 GMT
etag :
connection : close
last-modified : Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:44:09 GMT
content-length : 25218
</headers>

The headers for the same object published through Apache 2...

<headers>
server : Zope/(Zope 2.6.1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python
2.1.3, freebsd4) ZServer/1.1b1
content-type : application/pdf
accept-ranges : bytes
date : Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:33:13 GMT
etag :
connection : close
last-modified : Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:44:09 GMT
</headers>

Till this is not fixed, I advise Zope hosting admins to continue serving
through Apache 1.3.xx

Cheers

--Gilles