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Apache cache serving partial content 206 responses to requests for the full content

Bug #908583 reported by Henk Bokhoven
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Bug Description

Apache is caching 206 responses.
This is a known bug: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49113
has been fixed in the trunk (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=933919) but not in 2.2.1x

[1] Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, Release: 10.04
[2] Package: latest apache2 / apache2-mpm-worker 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.7
[3] Expected to happen:
HEAD "http://example.com/filename.swf"
200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=604800
Connection: close

[4] What happened instead:
HEAD "http://example.com/filename.swf"
206 Partial Content
Cache-Control: max-age=604800

Cleaned up the cached file by hand from the CacheRoot

My advise: apply the 2 patches as discussed here:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/STATUS?view=markup&pathrev=1165626

That makes: http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/httpd-cache-partial-2.2.patch
and
http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/httpd-cache-partial2-2.2.patch

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Thanks this will be considered for the LTS, however it needs to be confirmed in oneiric first, are you available to see if its fixed in oneiric?

Changed in apache2 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Henk Bokhoven (bokh) wrote :

Thanks Chuck.
All our production and staging servers run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, so sadly I'm not able to reproduce this (quickly) on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).

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Henk Bokhoven (bokh) wrote :

Browsing the Apache2 codebase for Oneiric, the 2 mentioned patches have NOT been applied there.

mod_cache:
Oneiric Apache2-source: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/apache2/oneiric/view/head:/modules/cache/mod_cache.c
Apache2-patch: http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/httpd-cache-partial2-2.2.patch

mod_disk_cache:
Oneiric Apache2-source: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/apache2/oneiric/view/head:/modules/cache/mod_disk_cache.c
Apache2-patch: http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/httpd-cache-partial-2.2.patch

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Changed in apache2 (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in apache2 (Debian):
status: New → Confirmed
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Changed in apache2 (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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