I resorted to the less intrusive option of simply using OC-Chunked (like in the 
mobile clients) instead of OC_CHUNKED. Case closed, noone was hurt, sorry for 
the noise.

Am 03.06.2013 um 18:59 schrieb Daniel Molkentin:

> Am 03.06.2013 um 11:51 schrieb Klaas Freitag:
> 
>> Problems happen if there are proxies or whatever gangsters on the way 
>> between client and server that filter out these headers without further 
>> notice. Than the server has no chance to detect that chunked upload is in 
>> progress.
>> 
> 
> I found the reason: nginx (natively and when used as a reverse proxy, 
> potentially also IIS, would need more investigation) do not deal properly 
> with headers using underscores by default. The reason is that when 
> transforming this to CGI variables, all underscores are dashes converted into 
> underscores, i.e.
> 
> OC_FOO_BAR and OC-foo-bar
> 
> are both represented as HTTP_OC_FOO_BAR in the server environment (i.e. PHP's 
> _SERVER map). Yes, header fields are also case insensitive.
> 
>> [1] https://github.com/owncloud/core/wiki/spec:-big-file-chunking
> 
> 
> I propose do deprecate OC_CHUNKING, and introduce org.owncloud.chunked: 1 (as 
> per RFC6648, such notation is recommended for headers not subject to 
> standardization efforts and superseeds the X- vendor prefix). We will keep 
> sendind OC_CHUNKING in the client and accept it in the server implementation. 
> For existing setups, I will also amend the server documentation for nginx to 
> point out this trap (set 
> http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Missing_.28disappearing.29_HTTP_headers, make 
> sure to set the variable in the default server{}'s scope when using virtual 
> hosts !)
> 
> For maximum data safety, we have now fixed csync to not lose data if the 
> header is missing (only an issue to 1.3.0 beta testers).
> 
> Cheers,
>   Daniel
> 
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