Ryan Bloom wrote:

> On Friday 30 November 2001 09:55 am, Ian Holsman wrote:
> 
>>Ryan Bloom wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>I think whats missing is the ability to add a filter on proxied requests.
>>something like ProxyAddOutputFilter/ProxyAddInputFilter
>>
> 
> You can do that with the regular AddOutputFilter command in the
> <proxy > block.  I have done this before.


not for reverse proxies
as you don't specify a proxy block.


> 
> Ryan
> 
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