Hi guys, In my understanding _it is_ a problem of mod_deflate. It's a bit tricky to flush dynamically generated content over HTTP/1.1: Core Apache marks the end of your document with empty chunk. When you flush an empty string in the middle of your document Apache has no way to serve your directions, but to create an empty chunk immediately. The first empty chunk received by the client is recognized as the end of the document. The rest of the data stream is just ignored.
I didn't have a chance to look into the source of mod_deflate yet, but this definitely has to be taken into account over there. In my understanding it would be the best our bet just to bring this issue to the attention of the author of mod_deflate. It's supposed to be easy to fix. Thanks, Slava ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stas Bekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippe M. Chiasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Bill Marrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:24 AM Subject: Re: [mp2 Patch] BUG with mod_deflate and $|=1 (20014:Error string not specified) > Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 01:24, Bill Marrs wrote: > > > >>This fixed the bug for me. > > > > > > Great! Will commit it in the near future. (Can't seem to access the cvs > > server right now, crappy internet cafe) > > -1, this is a wrong solution. print ""; should flush just like it did in > mod_perl 1.0 if $| == 1; Consider this script: > > print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; > local $| = 0; > print "start\n\n"; > local $| = 1; > print ""; > sleep 5; > local $| = 0; > print "end\n"; > > print "", must immediately flush the buffered data, since $| has changed from > 0 to 1. > > > > One thing that could help is if someone could take the time to write a > > test for this bug. > > Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to reproduce the problem, so I can't > debug the problem. It could be a bug on the mod_deflate's behalf as well. > Philippe, were you able to reproduce the problem with Bill's setup? I was > writing a test, but couldn't get it to fail... may be because i was using > 2.0.47. Bill, do you have the problem with the latest apache version? > > Also Bill, why do you have this setup: > > <Location /perl> > AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/* > SetOutputFilter DEFLATE > </Location> > > why adding it twice? You need only the latter inside <Location>, or > alternatively only the former outside <Location> if you want it to be set > globally: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#addoutputfilterbytype > > __________________________________________________________________ > Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker > http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com > http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com > >
