> I'm trying to make a PUT/POST HTTP request to a uwsgi application through
> apache, using the uwsgi module for apache. These requests use chunked
> transfer encoding for the request body.
>
> I have some test cases that I can run to make sure that all the
> functionality works. When I run them against the uwsgi HTTP socket
> (--http-socket 127.0.0.1:2001), everything works fine. When I run against
> port 80 (apache), apache seems to give me a '411 Length Required'. Uwsgi
> and my application do not report any request at all. I also snooped the
> backend traffic between apache and uwsgi, and I don't see traffic.
>
> My application's other functions (ones that don't use PUT/POST with
> chunked transfer encoding for the request body) work fine through apache.
>
> Some investigation seems to indicate that the uwsgi module for apache is
> responsible for disallowing the requests using a chunked request body:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/users/183271
> "Well, I got Apache source and it is obvious that the problem is
> most (all?) mod_* things do not ask Apache to dechunk request for
> them. They prefer to make it an error. So, it is possible to write Apache
> module to allow chunked requests."
>
> My configuration is apache 2.2.15 (stock CentOS 6.0), proxying for uwsgi
> (my custom package 1.9.37), running my python wsgi application. My apache
> configuration:
>
> ProxyPass /app/1.0 uwsgi://127.0.0.1:2101/
>
> Uwsgi invocation:
> /usr/sbin/uwsgi --socket 127.0.0.1:2101 --http-socket 127.0.0.1:2001 -A 10
> --wsgi-file /usr/local/vf/app/bin/app.wsgi --processes 10
> --snmp=127.0.0.1:3001 --snmp-community XXXX --daemonize2
> /var/log/uwsgi-app --log-syslog=app --pidfile /var/run/app.pid
> --http-manage-expect --http-raw-body --chunked-input-limit 1052672
>
> I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me determine why I'm getting
> a 411 error (is it the uwsgi module for apache?), and how I can fix it.
> I'd rather not drop using apache.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>

If you are on apache 2.2 i strongly suggest you to use mod_proxy_uwsgi
(sadly on apache2.4 it looks like it has some problem) it should not have
this kind of limits.


By the way i will investigate if we can improve mod_uwsgi to support
chunked input


-- 
Roberto De Ioris
http://unbit.it
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