Coping with IIS junk

Hi,

we recently replaced our netscape proxies with apache 2.0.39/mod_proxy
servers. One of the sites we connect to ( www.mediargus.be ) is running
a IIS 5 which sends headers that produces a "bad gateway" error. These
headers are wrong, but are and have been accepted by the netscape proxy.
Therefor I would like to propose a change in the proxy_util.c file :

*** proxy_util.c Mon Aug 5 14:55:45 2002
--- proxy_util_new.c Mon Aug 5 15:03:36 2002
***************
*** 441,447 ****
* the connection closes (EOF), or we timeout.
*/
while ((len = ap_getline(buffer, size, rr, 1)) > 0) {
!
if (!(value = strchr(buffer, ':'))) { /* Find the colon
separator */

/* Buggy MS IIS servers sometimes return invalid headers
--- 441,447 ----
* the connection closes (EOF), or we timeout.
*/
while ((len = ap_getline(buffer, size, rr, 1)) > 0) {
! ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG, 0, r->server, "proxy:
headerline = %s", buffer);
if (!(value = strchr(buffer, ':'))) { /* Find the colon
separator */

/* Buggy MS IIS servers sometimes return invalid headers
***************
*** 450,463 ****
* way, but log the fact.
* XXX: The mask check is buggy if we ever see an HTTP/1.10
*/

- if (!apr_date_checkmask(buffer, "HTTP/#.# ###*")) {
- /* Nope, it wasn't even an extra HTTP header. Give up.
*/
- return NULL;
- }
-
ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_WARNING, 0, r->server,
! "proxy: Ignoring duplicate HTTP header "
! "returned by %s (%s)", r->uri, r->method);
continue;
}

--- 450,458 ----
* way, but log the fact.
* XXX: The mask check is buggy if we ever see an HTTP/1.10
*/

ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_WARNING, 0, r->server,
! "proxy: got bad HTTP headerline ( %s ) from %s (%s)",
! buffer,r->uri,r->method);
continue;
}

Some lines in the logging to illustrate :

[Mon Aug 05 12:43:31 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
document.saveTop.alt = "Alles selecteren"; ) from
http://www.mediargus.be/scripts/docroom.EXE (POST)
[Mon Aug 05 12:43:31 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
document.saveBottom.alt = "Alles selecteren"; ) from
http://www.mediargus.be/scripts/docroom.EXE (POST)
[Mon Aug 05 12:43:54 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
document.saveTop.alt = "Alles selecteren"; ) from
http://www.mediargus.be/scripts/docroom.EXE (POST)
[Mon Aug 05 12:43:54 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
document.saveBottom.alt = "Alles selecteren"; ) from
http://www.mediargus.be/scripts/docroom.EXE (POST)
[Mon Aug 05 12:48:43 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
document.saveTop.alt = "Alles selecteren"; ) from
http://www.mediargus.be/scripts/docroom.exe?VOGO=viewbskt&no de=&subnode=Y
(GET)
[Mon Aug 05 12:48:43 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
document.saveBottom.alt = "Alles selecteren"; ) from
http://www.mediargus.be/scripts/docroom.exe?VOGO=viewbskt&no de=&subnode=Y
(GET)
[Mon Aug 05 12:53:44 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
HTTP/1.1 200 OK ) from
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=Vi ewListedItems&userid=peray&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25
(GET)
[Mon Aug 05 12:53:44 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
HTTP/1.1 200 OK ) from
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherIt ems&userid=peray&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1&include=0&page= 1&rows=25
(GET)
[Mon Aug 05 13:07:04 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
HTTP/1.1 200 OK ) from
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=Vi ewListedItems&userid=peray&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25
(GET)
[Mon Aug 05 13:07:05 2002] [warn] proxy: got bad HTTP headerline (
HTTP/1.1 200 OK ) from
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherIt ems&userid=peray&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1&include=0&page= 1&rows=25
(GET)

Mediargus.be was contacted and encouraged to comply to the HTTP1.1 rfc
but to this date no change ...

Thanks in advance,

Peter Van Biesen
System Administrator VFSIPH