Bug #67062 [NEW]: Requesting nonexistent files should produce HTTP 404 Not Found

From: php-bugs-2014 at ryandesign dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Website problem Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Requesting nonexistent files should produce HTTP 404 Not Found Description: ------------ I am the maintainer of PHP in MacPorts. Last year in bug #64273 I reported that requesting a nonexistent file from your download servers erroneously resulted in a 200 OK status code instead of the expected 404 Not Found status code, making it impossible for MacPorts to tell when a download had failed. We were using URLs like: http://uk.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.222.tar.bz2 I was advised to switch to using URLs like: http://uk.php.net/get/php-5.3.222.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror And that is what I did. Afterward, the original style of URL was fixed to return a 404 Not Found error when appropriate. Now, I have discovered that the form of URL I was advised to switch to has the same problem. It returns a 200 OK for nonexistent files. Can this please be fixed again? Which of these forms is the currently recommended form to use? Test script: --------------- curl -I -L http://uk.php.net/get/php-5.3.222.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror Expected result: ---------------- HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found etc. Actual result: -------------- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 06:24:29 GMT Server: Apache/2 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.21 Content-language: en Set-Cookie: COUNTRY=USA%2C70.116.59.133; expires=Sun, 20-Apr-2014 06:24:29 GMT; path=/ Status: 200 OK Cache-Control: private Pragma: no-cache Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67062&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=67062&r=mysqlcfg