On Wed, 22 May 2002, Zvi Har'El wrote: > Experimenting with an Apache Proxy, I noticed that in version 1.3 (the latest > cvs snapshot) it behaves in a half-duplex fashion. That is, it doesn't read the > backend server response until it have finished transmitting the client's > request body. This is pretty annoying, mainly if the request involves a very > large post (file upload), and the backend sever response, after the headers, > says "Please wait patiently...". I wonder: are there any intentions to change > this? It seems that full-duplex operation requires two threads per proxy, which > is not how the Apache proxy server works. Is the situation different, or going > to be different, in Apache 2? Just for reference, the Squid proxy doesn't > suffer from this deficiency.
If you use Apache 1.3 then you can try mod_accel. mod_accel uses temporary files if backend reponse or client POST is bigger then memory buffer. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru
