On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:28 PM Stefan Eissing <ste...@eissing.org> wrote: > > FYI: I am busy hacking away at the separation between our HTTP and HTTP/1.x > handling code. I'll make a PR once all tests have passed, so we can talk > about the changes.
Looking forward to seeing it ;) > > The goals are pretty simple: > > 1. have mod_http focus on HTTP semantics, header checks, ap_die conversions, > not chunking and CRLFs. > 2. have a mod_http1 that installs TRANSCODE filters when the connection is h1. > those do the chunking and the header serialization. > 3. Have interim responses that send META buckets, not DATA to the transcode > filters. > No content filter will be confused by those. > 4. Pass FOOTERS in/out as META buckets in a similar way. > > The main idea is to introduce a META "HEADERS" bucket that is used for > final/interim responses and footers as well. This will safely pass through > all filters that do not know about it. This is similar to the ERROR bucket > type we already have. There are some assumptions in httpd (and possibly third-party modules) that meta buckets have a no length, so if "HEADERS" buckets have one you might need to embed it in the bucket->data struct.. Cheers; Yann.
