minimal httpd response

From: Martijn (subscription_remove_101_at_hot_remove_mail.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:49:06 +0100

Hi,

I hope I am in the right place for this. I am trying to write a simple
HTTPD server (as an exercise for school), but I have some trouble getting it
to work. The point is, when I use direct telnet, everything works fine, but
when I use links, it chokes and tells me the following:

  Looking up proxy.xxxxxxx.nl:3128
  proxy.xxxxxxx.nl:3128
  Making HTTP connection to proxy.xxxxxxx.nl:3128
  Sending HTTP request.
  HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
  Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
  Can't Access `http://www.xxxxxxx.nl:12000/index.html'
  Alert!: Unable to access document.

  lynx: Can't access startfile

I put my server into debug mode to see what exactly was send by Lynx and
tried to do the same using telnet. The result is shown below (the lines I
pasted are marked with a > ). Everything seems to be working fine, but I
got the feeling I am not sending all of the required headers.

Does anybody know which are the minimal set of required headers? Or am I
overlooking something else? May the proxy be messing things up here?

Thanks in advance!

$ telnet localhost 12000
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /index.html HTTP/1.0
> Accept: text/html, text/plain, audio/mod, image/*, video/mpeg,
  video/*, application/pgp, application/pdf, application/postscript,
  message/partial, message/external-body, x-be2,
  application/andrew-inset, text/richtext, text/enriched,
  x-sun-attachment
> Accept: audio-file, postscript-file, default, mail-file,
  sun-deskset-message, application/x-metamail-patch,
  application/msword, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress
> Accept-Language: en
> User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1
  OpenSSL/0.9.6b
> Via: 1.0 proxy1:3128 (Squid/2.4.STABLE7)
> X-Forwarded-For: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> Host: www.xxxxxxx.nl:12000
> Cache-Control: max-age=259200
> Connection: keep-alive
>
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 8
Content-Type: text/html

test

Connection closed by foreign host. 

--
Martijn
http://www.sereneconcepts.nl

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