Re: Can you pass on information? (was Re: chunked POST)

[Tom Amiro]

"Richard L. Goerwitz" wrote:

Tom Amiro wrote:
>
> I assume Apache does support the HTTP 1.1 spec and that
> chunked POST can be used to return dynamic CGI output, so
> I don't understand why such tests are failing. But maybe this
> test isn't testing what I think it is.
>
> Anyone know what's going on?

Wow.  If you find out what's going on, could you pass this information
on to the rest of the list (or to individuals who ask)?

David R Michaels helped me understand what was going on.
He wrote:

The ApacheWeek quote appears to be about chunking CGI output, we need
chunking into CGI.

My test was trying to do chunking into CGI. David goes on

One of the PrintXchange developers ...

tells me that apache v1.3 is not working w/ their CGI scripts. We also
had someone search the apache site for mention of chunking support in the
new minor versions but can find little or no mention of chunking in general,
nothing specific to input to cgi-bin. I'm not that knowledgeable about
apache, or web servers in general, more on the network/OS support side of
this. But, am under the impression that if the web server doesn't recombine
the chunks prior to sending to cgi-bin, then it can't fill in the size
argument that is part of the CGI interface. Other posts I found on dejanews
implied that apache just doesn't do this, (search apache+chunking+CGI).

I've received a few replies saying that the test failed because it didn't
include Content-Length,

which is what Apache's error message is saying. I was confusing chunked
input to

CGI versus chunked output from CGI. The fact that the test doing chunked
input

to CGI worked with the Sun Web Server 1.2, but not Apache 1.3.6 contributed
to

my expectation that such a request should work with Apache.
I wonder if there is any possibility that Apache will be enhanced to
behave

like Sun Web Server 1.2 and permit chunked input to CGI. There is at
least

one group that David mentioned that has a need for it, and there may
be

others.
Does mod_perl offer support for this, so that existing client software
doesn't

have to tack on the Content Length to requests?
Tom