Return-Path: Delivered-To: apache-bugdb-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 4178 invoked by uid 6000); 6 May 1999 08:10:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 4002 invoked by uid 2001); 6 May 1999 08:10:01 -0000 Date: 6 May 1999 08:10:01 -0000 Message-ID: <19990506081001.4001.qmail@hyperreal.org> To: apache-bugdb@apache.org Cc: apache-bugdb@apache.org, From: Frank Richter Subject: Re: general/2797: 403 - Forbidden when errno=ETIMEDOUT Reply-To: Frank Richter Sender: apache-bugdb-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR general/2797; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Frank Richter To: coar@apache.org Cc: apbugs@apache.org Subject: Re: general/2797: 403 - Forbidden when errno=ETIMEDOUT Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 07:58:09 +0200 (MEST) > Synopsis: 403 - Forbidden when errno=ETIMEDOUT > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: coar > State-Changed-When: Wed May 5 14:42:38 PDT 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > > This is a deliberate decision. If a resource is not > available, Apache returns 403 rather than revealing > information about whether the resource actually exists > or not. I think it would be a good idea to make this configurable, ala mapping between system's errno and HTTP status. - Frank -- Email: Frank.Richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ Work: Computing Services, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany