On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:14:24PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: > On 17 Jan 2011, at 3:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > >Author: jorton > >Date: Mon Jan 17 13:14:21 2011 > >New Revision: 1059910 > > > >URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1059910&view=rev > >Log: > >* modules/ssl/ssl_engine_io.c: Revamp output buffering: add a > > "coalesce" filter which buffers the plaintext, and remove buffering > > of the SSL records -- i.e. buffer before the SSL output filter, > > rather than after it. This aims to reduce the network overhead > > imposed by the output of many small brigades (such as produced by > > chunked HTTP response), which can now be transformed into a few > > large TLS records rather than many small ones. > > Is this not a duplicate of the BUFFER filter in mod_buffer?
Ah, I forgot that was in the tree. It is similar, but that's a content filter which requires manual user configuration, this is a connection-level filter which does not. Yes, it would certainly be very nice to have a more abstract buffering filter with an API. Regards, Joe
