HEAD requests for ftp URLs always return 200 OK even if not OK

[Christian Reis]

Salgado was checking if it'd be possible to use squid to proxy FTP HEAD requests for me, and although it is handled in src/ftp.c, using libwww-perl's GET to issue a HEAD request to FTP files always gives me a 200 OK response regardless of whether the file exists or not.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

This has a fix upstream; it also is required for us to be able to support FTP mirrors correctly in the Soyuz mirror management tool.

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

I've tried the upstream patch and it works fine.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Confirming, since patch is given by upstream and works.

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

It's a long time since this was fixed upstream, can anybody check whether feisty includes this fix or not?

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

The fix was first included in squid-2.6.STABLE4, released on Fri, Sep 29th 2006.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/SQUID_2_6_STABLE4.html

I'm not sure what the current version of Squid is based upon. Apt tells me:

Package: squid
Version: 2.6.1-3ubuntu1.3

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Thanks taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Gutsy Gibbon.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages .

As mentioned above the fix was first included in squid-2.6.STABLE4, which corresponds to 2.6.4-1 (see debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389536). Gutsy and Feisty have a more recent version of the package.