[Open-scap] RHSA OVAL - HTTP server - HEAD request unavailable

[Zbynek Moravec]

Hi,

we use some sort of caching in our oscap-docker.
We use HTTP HEAD request to get "last-modified" attribute of remote file. It was working some days before,
but currently http server returns "503 Service Unavailable".

$ curl -i -X HEAD http://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_7.xml
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable

$ curl -i -X GET http://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_7.xml
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

It makes difficult to use make caching feature without this functionality.
Is it normal behavior?

Zbynek Moravec
OpenSCAP team