The following reply was made to PR mod_jserv/4908; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Doug Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marc Slemko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mod_jserv/4908: Apache is adding bytes to large servlet responses,( > 500 bytes ) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:31:45 +1200 Thanks for your quick response. Yes, you were right on the mark with your comment and it has helped me heaps ! ) to make some long overdue progress on this problem. The client is actually a Java applet, which opens an URL connection to a servlet. ( I actually use a https:// connection, which gives me an encrypted path ) After reading up on the transfer-coding value "chunked" and trying unsuccessfully ) to get the remote client to ask for a 1.0 request ( as per your suggestion ) - I still couldn't get rid of this chunked encoding. There seems to be very little documentation on handling this encoding scheme through java applets ( perhaps I could spend some time on this ?? ) Anyway, I then proceeded to include a 'Content-Length' header field, in my servlet response. This removed the 'Transfer-Encoding' field from Apache's response back to the client , though I am not totally confident why this happened. The main thing though, things are back working again !! I think from reading the rfc's , you can have either a content-length or transfer-encoding field, but not both. This must have something to do with generating dynamic HTML. This 'bug' has been in my servlet code all this time, and I do not know why upgrading to the latter versions of Apache ( 1.3.9 from 1.3.4 ) and JServ 1.0 from 0.9.11 ) has caused this to surface. The only thing I can put my finger on , is the frame sizes seem to be smaller, ie around 512 bytes of data per frame. Where the trace from my old configuration, saw frames of around 1500 bytes being returned to the remote client, as opposed to 3 frames with the newer versions ??? Thanks again Doug. -----Original Message----- From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Doug Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 6:23 PM Subject: Re: mod_jserv/4908: Apache is adding bytes to large servlet responses,( > 500 bytes ) >On 26 Aug 1999, Doug Herbert wrote: > >> ie. the following are response frames to the remote client >> >> 1st Frame ( from Apache to client ) >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK >> Date ...etc... >> >> 2nd Frame >> 19\n\rabcdefghijklmnopqrs\n\r >> >> 3rd Frame >> 7\n\rtuvwxyz\n\r > >Is the client making a HTTP/1.1 request? > >If so, then this looks a whole lot like a chunked response. Check the >response headers to see if there is a chunked encoding header. > >If the client makes a 1.1 request, then it must be able to understand >chunked encodings, otherwise it shouldn't make a 1.1. request. >
