possible httpd applet bug?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 15:28, Paul Albrecht wrote:
> The cgi program generates the http response not the busybox http server
> so it should be obvious that it must return a content-type header if one
> is required.
> 
> What the busybox http server actually does now is checks the output for
> something that kinda sorta looks like a content-type header and if it
> doesn't find one it inserts a content-type header of text/plain which
> doesn't make sense for some cgi programs.
> 
> Here's an example of a cgi program without a entity body:
> 
> echo -e "HTTP/1.0 302 Found\r\nLocation: http://www.busybox.net\r\n\r\n"
> 
> If you for some reason feel obligated to insert a content-type of
> text/plain if a cgi program doesn't return a response header that kinda
> sorta looks like a content-type header, then you should verify the http
> response includes a entity body before you return a content-type header.

Coomented out that part of httpd.c in svn.

Thanks for the explanation.
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vda