AW: keep-alive and vary in 304 responses

[Plüm , Rüdiger , Vodafone Group]

C2 General

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. April 2019 14:04
> An: httpd-dev <dev@httpd.apache.org>
> Betreff: Re: keep-alive and vary in 304 responses
> 
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:03 PM Plüm, Rüdiger, Vodafone Group
> <ruediger.pl...@vodafone.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com>
> > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. April 2019 12:49
> > >
> > > Do user-agents support "Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked" currently?
> > > That'd be the best/easier solution I think.
> >
> > But TE is only hop-by-hop isn't it?. This would mean no e2e
> compression?
> 
> A proxy can still forward hop-by-hop things, e.g. mod_proxy forwards
> "chunked" encoding if no previous handler/input-filter reads the body.

My understanding was that mod_proxy "dechunks" the body and "chunks" it again.
It does not pass it transparently.
This would be a resource intensive job with compression.

Regards

Rüdiger