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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
