The HEAD request used to fetch metadata about a file via HTTP
contains a trailing 0x20 character which will cause modern HTTP/1.1
servers to reject the request.
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RCS file: /sources/hurdextras/httpfs/http.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff --unified -r1.3 http.c
--- http.c 25 Jan 2013 00:50:58 -0000 1.3
+++ http.c 9 Sep 2020 16:15:02 -0000
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
}
/* Send a HEAD request find header length */
- sprintf(buffer,"HEAD %s HTTP/1.0 \n\n",node->conn_req);
+ sprintf(buffer,"HEAD %s HTTP/1.0\n\n",node->conn_req);
towrite = strlen (buffer);
written = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (write (*fd, buffer, towrite));
if ( written == -1 || written < towrite )
