> Awesome!  Thank you so much...this is great.  

sure thing :)


>> actually, you don't need to calculate the length of the response anymore
>> either.  apache 2.0 has a content-length filter that uses the same
>> mechanism
>> as above (calculating the length of the filter stream after everyone has
>> manipulated the content).
> 
> 
> If I take out the length calcuclation, no Content-Length header gets
> generated.  This makes sense though; what if you had 500MB of data... it
> would take many seconds to buffer that from disk while the client
> waited.  Better to simply stat the file and send the proper length header.

apache makes the decision as to whether you actually need a Content-Length
header.  if you're using HTTP/1.1, for instance it will use a chunked
transfer encoding instead, so you would see a Transfer-Encoding header.

anyway, glad you got this sorted out.  apache 2.0 is cool, isn't it ;)

--Geoff


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