Because the front end reverse proxy needs to connect to one of 3 different servers.
1) Static html server. 2) Mod Perl dynamic content server 3) Windows based xml servers that need to use 1.1 to communicate. So for 3 we need chunked or the Content-Length, either way, we need 1.1. compatibility. John- On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 12:33 PM, Igor Sysoev wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, John Armstrong wrote: > >> This 'seems' to be a modperl issue. >> >> My configuration. I needed a 1.1 compliant reverse proxy in order to >> support Chunked encoding for an xml gateway. > > Why do you need chunked encoding from backend ?