Chuck Murcko wrote:

> Also if the proxy is dechunking on its client side there will be no CL
> to send...

This is obvious. But this is already included in the rule: "there is no
C-L when a filter that may change the size of the response is onvolved";
After all, chunking is only a particular case of a filter...

I think that we should supply a way (for a programmer) to tell Apache
that a specific filter doesn't change the size of a response. Or doesn't
change the size of specific reponses (using the contexts of the conf,
such as DIRECTORY, etc.). Or the hack that Ryan mentioned. Because while
browsers must support responses without C-L, they depend on it for some
purposes (e.g. the % of download of a file).

Especially in proxies, where the backend site is not aware that the C-L
is removed by a proxy in the middle.

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Eli Marmor
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