Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:50:05 -0600 (MDT)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@worldgate.com>
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Subject: Re: general/232: Apache 1.2b7/b8-dev causes Netscape to display some
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
> 
> > Ok, so who wants to whine to Netscape this time about their lame browser?
> 
> I suspect the bug is someplace else.
> 
> My mod_perl header has never cause trouble with jpegs. I've been
> using both for months.
> 
> I cannot reproduce the problem and have no user bug reports.

But do you have keepalives enabled?  If I disable keepalives, the problem
isn't there.  

Unless... perhaps there is an off-by-one error in either Netscape or
Apache if the headers are of a certain length?  The headers are right
around 255 bytes long... hmm...

Perhaps I will make a test server with nc that sends headers that long...

aha.  Ok, I have managed to reproduce it without Apache.

Sending these headers:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 22:34:44 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2b8-dev mod_perl/0.94xxxxxxxxx
Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 22:18:18 GMT
ETag: "1c27e-fe8-3329ceaa"
Content-Length: 4072
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: image/jpeg

with the arthritis.jpg file
(http://www.enews.com/graphics/covers/arthritis.jpg) appended after that,
using a server of:

	cat file | nc -l -p 8080

where nc is Hobbit's netcat caused Communicator 4.0b3 to display the
broken image icon.  If I added one more character to the server name, it
was still broken, but if I added another one to that it was ok.

Further experimenting shows that it is when the headers reach 257 bytes
that the problem pops up.  My money is on a bug in Netscape's software.