Very Computer

Hi,

I may not be in the right NG, but if anyone knows the answer to
this, you folks do.

We're running Apache_1.2b4 on Linux (Kernel 2.??) and I've
been intermittently getting nailed with the following
error from some cgi scripts.

** [Mon Jul 20 12:04:46 1998] access to /home/httpd/cgi-bin/brockbuts
failed for 209.41.152.31, reason: malformed header from script **

There about 100 users hitting this cgi script (not simultaneously)
and for approx. 15-20% of them the above error shows
up in /var/log/httpd/error_log.

At first I assumed that it was something along the lines of forgetting
to put
in </html> or </form>.  But everything seems fine in html source.

Any insights, hints, tips or even a good banana cake recipt would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance....

Jim Stephens

Since it is only happening PART of the time it is either a script
problem which only affects certain cases (ie only when they click this
button, or only when they use MSIE 2.0). Or, your script is crashing.

        I expect it is the latter, add some debugging to the script so when it
crashes it gives you some debugging to the error log so you can find the
error.

                                Richard
                                Supernews

After getting the same error I bashed my head against the wall for a few
hours before I figured out that my script was putting in a leading " "
and that was a malformed header.  It was hard to debug because the space
didn't show up (or rather, I was blind to it.  It really was in the
error message)
--

-bill-

After getting the same error I bashed my head against the wall for a few
hours before I figured out that my script was putting in a leading " "
and that was a malformed header.  It was hard to debug because the space
didn't show up (or rather, I was blind to it.  It really was in the
error message)
--

-bill-