Problem: The transfer of a document fails if it was chosen by Apache because of DirectoryIndex and MultiViews, and XBitHack is set. Reproduction: VirtualHost configuration: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName problem DocumentRoot /web/problem CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/problem" combined ErrorLog "/var/log/apache2/problem_e" Options +MultiViews +Includes DirectoryIndex index XBitHack Full </VirtualHost> The file in DocumentRoot: $ echo '<!--#set var="a" value="ABC" -->T: <!--#echo var="a" -->' > index.html $ chmod 744 index.html Example HEAD request (works fine): $ curl -I http://problem/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:08:43 GMT Server: Apache Content-Location: index.html Vary: negotiate TCN: choice Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 But a GET request hangs (curl hangs for 10 seconds before exiting with the error, web browsers just fail and display an error): $ curl http://problem/ T: ABC curl: (18) transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining The log records a successful request. This request is fine: $ curl http://problem/index T: ABC To "fix": $ chmod 644 index.html $ curl http://problem/ <!--#set var="a" value="ABC" -->T: <!--#echo var="a" --> Bring back the SSI: $ mv index.html index.shtml $ curl http://problem/ T: ABC
I can confirm this bug do exist on two of my servers, one with gentoo linux and the other ubuntu. Matt made a very good bug report IMHO because all what he said waisted me 1 full day to find out.
This may be related to bug 43289.
*** Bug 50914 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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