On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:52:25PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> I'm running across one particularly troubling example in the MS ISAPI example
> extensions [other than all of the bugs I've documented at 
> www.apache.org/~wrowe/]
> 
> There is a chunking example that sends a chunked response to the client.  I 
> imagine
> other authors have written similar cgi scripts that attempt to do this as well.
> 
> Suppose we look for the cgi/isapi to set the chunked response flag, and then
> insert our dechunk filter at the head of the output stack?  Think that 
> would fly?

No. Bleck. If the "chunked response flag" is not already private, it really
should be. Modules should not be setting that [any more]. We absolutely
should not compensate for modules which do.

[ and yes: modules *do* need to change w.r.t. how they handle output. I had
  to remove byte-range handling from mod_dav; that is now handled in the
  core; by a similar analogy, chunking is handled in the core ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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