I'd like to use mod_proxy to proxy a stock ticker that sends stock quotes using Transfer-Enconding: chunked. The chunks are much smaller than 8k.
mod_proxy buffers the results of the stock ticker until the buffer recieved 8k. This delay defeats the desired push effect of the ticker. There is a bug open on this issue... http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37514 The proposed solution is to poll for chunks using non-blocking I/O. When the socket returns EAGAIN, the 8K buffer is flushed, and the socket is read with blocking I/O. However, in the http code, regardless of the block mode flag, the headers are read using blocking I/O. Furthermore, somewhere deeper in the chain, when EAGAIN is detected the success flag is returned instead. I'll provide more detail, if this is not already well known. Looks like this is going to be messy to fix. Any patches? I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier, for now, to tell mod_proxy to proxy chunks as is? Is there another module that can tunnel a chunked encoding request? -- Alan Gutierrez - 504 717 1428 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blogometer.com/