Found a bug in apache

Spent the past couple of days trying to get my code to work with some machines which were throwing me out. After days of hacking… realized it was not an issue with my code. Started hacking with perl , and that seems to be fine too. Finally after further investigation and hacking, I realized, its a bug with apache. Basically if the apache is patched with the chunked encoding bug, and if you get a 302 redirect page with a request that is chunked encoded, the headers that come from the server for a form submit are corrupt. Yep, the HTTP header looks like this.

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:44:13 GMT
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Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Notice the :

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Now the reason, this has been unnoticed by others is because all browsers are ignoring this and just redirect the request without cribbing. Looks like the normal browsers dont parse the body on 302 redirects. Anyways have written to the apache folks, hope they fix this soon.

Besides to hit a machine with chunk encoded bug patched + 302 request on a form + Server sending chunked response + non standard browser is *very* rare. But this bug has been killing my perl scanners for the past 2 weeks ( if you were wondering why I havent posted lately.. this is one of the reason)