This is the same issue I was dealing with in mod_proxy that I submitted the patch for in 'BUG 19954 [PATCH] HTTP tunneling through reverse proxy does not always work'. In my case I didn't care what the read size was, but I needed to forward on whatever had been read, even if it was less than 8000 bytes.
Obviously, the patch I submitted was specific to mod_proxy, but the root issue is the same. --------------------------------------------------------- Chris Conti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The buffer size is not 8K... it's 8000. 8K is what's > actually allocated, ... > > I still don't see what problem you're trying to solve, > though, by wanting > a configurable buffer size? > > --Cliff >