Public bug reported: We (autopkgtest.ubuntu.com) had an unattended upgrade recently bump our apache version to 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.17.
This was problematic for us - we serve static files through apache and seemingly after this version bump, our transfer encodings are now ALWAYS set to be "chunked". This is an issue, as we have external services which periodically download these static files I've mentioned, which need to check the Content-Length header whilst downloading these files. I've manually installed 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.16 on our staging servers and verified that this patch is indeed the root cause of the issue. with 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.16: ``` wget -v -d https://autopkgtest.staging.ubuntu.com/static/autopkgtest.db ... ---request begin--- GET /static/autopkgtest.db HTTP/1.1 Host: autopkgtest.staging.ubuntu.com User-Agent: Wget/1.21.3 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: identity Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... w ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:15:41 GMT server: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) cache-control: public, max-age=60 expires: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:16:41 GMT accept-ranges: bytes content-length: 1434976256 last-modified: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:14:27 GMT etag: "1713262467.7848494-1434976256-79961951" content-type: application/octet-stream set-cookie: SRVNAME=S0; path=/ ---response end--- 200 OK Stored cookie autopkgtest.staging.ubuntu.com -1 (ANY) / <session> <insecure> [expiry none] SRVNAME S0 Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. Length: 1434976256 (1.3G) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘autopkgtest.db’ ``` with 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.17: ``` ---request begin--- GET /static/autopkgtest.db HTTP/1.1 Host: autopkgtest.staging.ubuntu.com User-Agent: Wget/1.21.3 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: identity Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:23:50 GMT server: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) cache-control: public, max-age=60 expires: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:24:51 GMT accept-ranges: bytes last-modified: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:23:27 GMT etag: "1713263007.8384898-1434976256-79961951" transfer-encoding: chunked content-type: application/octet-stream set-cookie: SRVNAME=S0; path=/ ---response end--- 200 OK Stored cookie autopkgtest.staging.ubuntu.com -1 (ANY) / <session> <insecure> [expiry none] SRVNAME S0 Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. Length: unspecified [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘autopkgtest.db’ ``` And you can clearly see the content length isn't reported. Is this the intended behaviour? Are there ways I can workaround this to not use chunked transfer encoding? ** Affects: apache2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2061816 Title: apache2 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.17 defaults to transfer-encoding=chunked where this is undesired To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/2061816/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
