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

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Issue

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

ErrorDocument 400 /somepage.html

or

ErrorDocument 400 /cgi-bin/error.cgi

But Apache httpd did not return a custom error page for "400 Bad Reqeust" error response when a request is malformed. for example:

# sending an HTTP/1.1 request without Host header
$ curl -v http://localhost/ -H "Host:" 

# sending a large request header 
$ curl -v http://localhost/ -H "key: `perl -e 'print "a"x10000'`"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
    • Apache httpd 2.2.15
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x
    • Apache httpd 2.4.6
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS) 1.0.x, 2.x
    • Apache httpd 2.2.x

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