Hi,
We are considering to use pound as reverse proxy. During tests, we have
encountered the following issue:
- a client does a PUT request, with non-zero content-length
- pound forwards the PUT request and starts to forward the associated
content
- the server that pound forwards to reads and evaluates the request,
without reading the content yet
- the server that pound forwards to notices a problem with the request
and responds, then closes the connection without ever reading the
content associated with the PUT request
- pound notices that it can not forward the content (EPIPE), and
immediately responds to the client with "500 Internal Server Error"
In other words, on error, the response from the the server that pound
forwards to never reaches the client, and the client needs more
information than "500 Internal Server Error" to be able to take
appropriate action.
The PUT content can be very big (gigabytes), so reading it completely
and then responding would take the server considerable time and
resources, and would cost much bandwidth.
Would it be possible to have pound attempt to forward the response back
to the client after the forward of the content to the server has failed?
Thank you,
Bastiaan Stougie
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