Jim Winstead back on June 26 finished debugging a patch to libapreq (that's Apache::Request) that avoids the problem of the mod_perl process eating up all the memory required for an upload (and then some!) and not giving it back. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/thahwhahyu/20000626150219.A9842@ trainedmonkey.com Joe Schaefer then rewrote this to avoid some unnecessary malloc()s, http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/rorprilswe/m3ya3m513y.fsf@mumonk an.sunstarsys.com which David Mitchell then patched to make more portable. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/rorprilswe/200007051203.NAA20171 @tiree.fdgroup.co.uk Why this history lesson? Well, Joe and David's version, I've just discovered, fails to correctly deal with large POSTs that are not file uploads. In particular, I just wrote a lengthy (3 hours!) email in my webmail system, and when it got to the recipiant only the first and last bits were there :-( I've replicated this behaviour with a number of large POSTs, and the problem always occurs (under Linux 2.2+latest stable mod_perl and Apache). The good news is that Jim's version doesn't have this problem. Are there any volunteers to fix Joe and David's more efficient version? (Sorry, I'm no C guru...) -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
