On Friday 30 November 2001 10:24 am, Ian Holsman wrote: > 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.
Yeah, but even then, you should be able to use a Location block to add a filter for that URL. Ryan ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
