On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Jeff Trawick wrote: > 1. special case: > if client specified C-L and either C-L is zero or there are no > input filters or some magic envvar is set to indicate that filters > don't change the size: > pass through the C-L header and stream the request body, if any > > 2. normal: > read enough request body to see if there is more than 32K of > request body... > if <= 32K: > send the C-L and the small request body; > else if some magic variable is set to force calculation of C-L: > get temporary file; > read entire request body into file; > send calculated C-L; > send request body from the file; > else: > use chunked encoding and stream the request body
Hey, I was just drafting a reply in this thread, but you beat me to it:-) +1 to the above. > > Will there really remain no active filters in the common case? > > strictly speaking, there are always filters; but we're just worried > about filters which can modify the request body; it is common to have > a configuration in which there are no filters which modify the request > body... This is essentially what the protocol handling in mod_filter offers for output filters. I wonder if you've just made the case (always "potentially useful/interesting") to extend mod_filter to input filters? -- Nick Kew
