[RESOLVED] response headers not correct

EPJS

When I go to a page that doesn't exist, and the default apache 404 page is displayed it has a response header of 404 Not Found

But when I use a custom error page I made, the response header is 404 OK

It doesn't matter if 1.0 or 1.1 is used the PHP header
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); or header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");

It still comes up as "404 OK" rather than "404 Not Found" (does the same thing with all custom pages)

Is it possible to get it to come up as "404 Not Found" in the response headers?

bradgrafelman

Any chance you can give us a link to one of these pages?

EPJS

{removing link so google doesn't index it}

(this is the 500 page)

bradgrafelman

What's wrong with that page? Seems to return the 500 header as expected:

HTTP/1.1 500
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:09:04 GMT
Server: Apache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<html>
<head>
<title>500 - Internal Server Error</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>500 - Internal Server Error</h1>
<h3>There is an error on the server that is preventing the page you're trying to view from loading.<br>Please try again later to see if the problem has been fixed.</h3>
</body>
</html>

EPJS

What Firefox tells me about the response headers is:

Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:22:01 GMT
Server: Apache
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

500 OK

But the apache default error page is "500 Internal Server Error" not "500 OK"

Edit: I forced an actual 500 to get what the default says:

bradgrafelman

Well... can you paste the exact header() call from the page you linked above?

Apparently, FireFox will use "OK" as the catch-all description for an status code when the server doesn't provide one.

EPJS

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error");
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>500 - Internal Server Error</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>500 - Internal Server Error</h1>
<h3>There is an error on the server that is preventing the page you're trying to view from loading.<br>Please try again later to see if the problem has been fixed.</h3>
</body>
</html>

That's all the code on the page (if that's what you meant)

bradgrafelman

That's rather odd... copied and pasted the same code onto my server and it outputted the full "500 Internal Server Error" header instead of just "500".

At any rate, it doesn't really matter if it returns the correct reason phrase "Internal Server Error" since it still returns the 500 status code. In fact, the "reason phrase" portion of this response header isn't even required by RFC standards (see RFC 2616-sec6.1.1).

EPJS

Ok, well if it's not a requirement, then I guess that's fine 🙂

Thanks for your help.