On Monday 24 September 2001 12:27 pm, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:14:22PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> > > The brigades should not be returning more data than is asked for
> > > ever.
> >
> > Right. But the only increment the API allows to ask for are one whole
> > bucket's worth at a time.
>
> util_filter's ap_get_brigade takes in the length to read. The
> translation from httpd->apr_util in the core filter loses this
> distinction. The core filter should be splitting the buckets and
> only returning the requested amount to HTTP_IN (and it'd have to
> handle the 0 case when we want to read a line). Since the
> core is inherently connection-based, I see no reason why the
> buffering can't be done there. Currently, it passes the
> socket bucket up the chain.
>
The original reason that the core worked this way, was to allow for SSL
libraries that didn't support in-memory decryption. It may not be necessary
anymore however.
Ryan
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