Status response header overwriting HTTP response status-line

[Ralph Churchill]

Hi, we're using passenger 3.0.19 and Apache 2.2.3. I've noticed that when passenger sets an HTTP response header of 'Status' that Apache is using that value to overwrite the status and reason in the status line. For example, Apache would normally return a status line of:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:43:26 GMT

Server: Apache

...

But, when passenger sets a response header of "Status: 200" then Apache's response status line looks like:

HTTP/1.1 200 

Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:12:58 GMT

Server: Apache

X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 3.0.19

...

Status: 200

I can manually set the status in Rails, e.g. headers['Status'] = "200 OK", and get the expected behavior (i.e. response status line of "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"). Is there a reason why passenger doesn't use the code AND the reason? Is there a way to "turn off" setting that header? Or is this something particular to my Apache setup (e.g. maybe mod_headers or something)?

Thanks!

Ralph

[Hongli Lai]

Phusion Passenger for Apache always sets the Status header because
there are broken HTTP clients out there that depend on the existance
of this header. In Phusion Passenger 3 the Status header insertion
code was written quickly so it just sets the status code but not the
reason phrase. In Phusion Passenger 4 the code has become more
sophisticated so it inserts the reason phrase as well.

Original thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/phusion-passenger/A-A4FoT7rgk

Is there any reason why you want to remove the header?

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[Ralph Churchill]

Thanks for the explanation.

I don't want or need to remove the header, but I'm confused as to what -- in my particular case -- caused the reason phrase to "disappear". I can confirm that whatever goes into the status header winds up as the reason phrase. For example, if I manually set the header to "200 TEST", then the reason phrase is likewise, "200 TEST".

Is Apache doing this? Is passenger doing this?

For now, I have a workaround, but I'm curious as to what changed. All I did was update Apache from httpd-2.2.3-65.el5_8.3 to 2.2.3-76.el5_9. That minor update shouldn't have affected something like this.

Ralph

[Hongli Lai]

Phusion Passenger does that. The behavior is as follows:
- if there is no status header, one is automatically generated. The generated one has a code but no reason phrase.
- if there is a status header, it is passed through verbatim

Sent from my Android phone.

Op 28 jan. 2013 16:55 schreef "Ralph Churchill" <churc...@gmail.com> het volgende:

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