On Mon, 13 May 2002, Ian Macdonald wrote: > I'm setting up a new server and wish to run two Apache configurations, > one vanilla and one mod_perl. I've configured pretty much according to > Stas' excellent guide, using the rewrite module to push the perl > requests to the second (ie mod_perl) server. > > Versions; HP-UX 10.20, Apache 1.3.24, mod_perl 1.26. > > It's _nearly_ working, but I'm getting one weird piece of behaviour > which looks to me like the sort of problem someone with more experience > will recognise very swiftly; when I request a perl script via the > mod_perl-enabled locations, the content is preceded by a hex number, > which corresponds very closely to the size of the content, and then a > blank line, as shown below: > > 4e9 > > PID = 3282 > DOCUMENT_ROOT="/opt/web_root/html" > GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI-Perl/1.1" > etc.
Your backend send chunked response - I think you use 1.3.24 mod_proxy and it probably send HTTP/1.1 request. You should force mod_perl to HTTP/1.0 Another way is to use mod_accel. It always uses HTTP/1.0 with backend and more advanced then mod_proxy. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru
