The reverse proxy read a brigade, then forward it to the client. It should not buffer the response but forward block of data. Maybe it's because of deflate or mod_security...
But this behaviour is not normal imho. Matthieu On Thursday 02 February 2006 16:13, CASTELLE Thomas wrote: > Hi there, > > I came with a problem which surprise me, as I thought Apache was working > differently... > > We have Apache 2.0.55 working in reverse-proxy in front of different > webservers. > > One of our website takes a long time to process requests and respond to > the client. The proxy reaches its timeout and closes the connection. > > So, our developers created a webpage which sends small chunks of data so > that the connection is never closed. > > I thought it would work as, for me, apache don't wait for the page to be > complete before sending some chunks to the client... but instead it does > ! > > In our configuration, Apache waits to have the entire page before > sending it back to the client. Is it because of one of our module ? We > are using, among other things, mod_rewrite, mod_proxy, mod_deflate, > mod_security, mod_headers... > > Thanks for your help, > > Regards, > > Thomas.
