Also if the proxy is dechunking on its client side there will be no CL to send...
Chuck On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 11:20 , Ryan Bloom wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:01 pm, Eli Marmor wrote: >> Content-Length is not passed through proxy requests, when Apache 2.0 is >> used as the proxy. >> >> Is it a bug? >> Feature? >> Limitation? >> >> Or is it just me? My configuration? >> >> Many clients depend on this data, for example audio/video players, so >> it is quite bad to lack CL. >> >> Is there any way to tell the API that the filters don't change the >> response size so the original CL can be used? > > There is no way to do that, because you will never know if filters > changed the > data or not. The reason we don't return a C-L, is that we don't have > all of the > data, so we can't computer the C-L. There is a possibility that we > could fix this, > with a hack. Basically, have the C-L filter check to see if the only > bucket is a > socket bucket or a pipe bucket. If so, leave the C-L alone. We can be > sure that the data hasn't been changed in that case. If the only > bucket is > any other type, we will automagically compute the C-L. >
