Sheth, Niraj writes: > I also had the same problem, but withouth ssl. > > i could think of two solution. > 1. Modify front end apache's source code manually( i guess default is > HUGE_STRING_LEN (8k)), but it sounds little scary .. > > so i opted for second choice ... > > 2. > > in your perl script ... > > print "something ...\n"; > my $lines = "\n" x 4096; > print $lines; # now proxy server is happy at this point. Yes, thanks I just tried it, it works! The only drawback is that I have to send always 4k possibly over slow lines to get some timely messages across... Dirk