Ryan Bloom wrote: > 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. >
OK.. now I understand the confusion. I'm talking about adding filters to the actual call made to the other server. (eg from web server to app) not from client to webserver. > Ryan > > ______________________________________________________________ > Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
