Apache httpd will not return a custom error page on status code 400

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Issue

I specified CGI or html page to ErrorDocument on status code 400 like the followings:

ErrorDocument 400 /cgi-bin/error.cgi

or

ErrorDocument 400 /somepage.html

But Apache httpd did not return a custom error page on status code 400 when a request is malformed. for example:

curl -H "key: `perl -e 'print "a"x10000'`" -v http://localhost/

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)
    • 1.0.x
  • Apache httpd

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