On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 06:42 , 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... But it's not so obvious that the same entity may be returned from a cache *with* a C-L. So you will also have filters that put a C-L back on. > > 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 proxy in 2.0 should return a C-L if it is possible to do so from the origin server. Chuck
