Hi, On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Stefan Eissing > <stefan.eiss...@greenbytes.de> wrote: > > Looking at the source regarding trailer handling, am I correct in seeing: > > > > - request trailer supported with option to merge on/off into the normal > headers > > - mod_proxy_http support to move trailer from the backend to table > trailers_out > > - no support for sending trailer to the client in http core > > > > ? > > > > There is interest in supporting trailer in HTTP/2, where they work for > every request as chunked encoding is not an issue. That's why I'm asking. > > I think the summary is right. What's there is a very late addition. > We had a CVE where we originally folded trailers into request headers > (r->headers_in), which meant headers changed depending on which > modules looked / when you looked. > > There is a relatively recent PR with someone asking about being able > to pass trailers to origin servers w/ mod_proxy for example. > Yeah, I would be very glad if you merge the patch <https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58177>. I also pushed a symmetric patch <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCORE-412> to Apache HTTP client library. -- Daneel Yaitskov Egnyte Java Team skype: daneel_s_yaitskov
