On Friday 30 November 2001 03:42 am, Eli Marmor wrote: > 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.
The hack is easy to add, and it is safer, I'll try to get to it this weekend if nobody beats me to it. Ryan ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
