Thanks Willy. Yeah trailers are rarely used and I am having a tough time making it work in Apache web server. Thanks for taking care of it in Haproxy from the start. :)
On 7/22/15, 6:22 PM, "Willy Tarreau" <w...@1wt.eu> wrote: >Hi Sachin, > >On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 05:22:00PM +0530, Sachin Shetty wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have started using Http trailers in http chunked request. Http >>trailers >> are pretty well defined in the spec but seems like not widely used. We >> have haproxy forwarding the trailers to Apache tomcat and it is all >> working fine, I just wanted to confirm from the group that it is working >> by design and won¹t stop working in some future release :) > >Hehe that's a fun way to help spot future regressions :-) You should >have specified the exact version you tested with. > >That said, chunked encoding was initially implemented with trailers >support >in both directions. That's typically the sort of thing you don't want to >try to introduce later as it breaks the state machine and becomes much >harder to do later than to do initially. So I was pretty sure it used to >work, though I must confess I don't test them often :-) > >Cheers, >Willy >
