On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:22:18PM -0500, Brian Akins wrote: > >There *might* be a breakage if the server aborted it's half of the > >connection partway through the response. I don't have the time to fully > >look at the code, but there might be a code path that does so. -- justin > > From what I can tell, stock proxy and cache is vulnerable to that.
After a bit more of thinking, the right thing to do would be to have mod_proxy force a dropped connection to the client. Since the backend bailed on us, there's no way for us to finish the response - we've likely already guaranteed the headers, but have no way to keep the connection 'correct' with respect to the metadata we've already sent. We must bail. If mod_proxy forces the dropped connection, this should, in turn, cause mod_cache to not be able to 'finish' the response. Therefore, there should be no cachable partial response to serve. -- justin
