Hello According to [1], $r->rflush() should create a new brigade with data. It does not. It seems the docs and/or my understanding of this is in error (probably the latter...).
This is with: Apache/2.0.47 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_perl/1.99_07-dev Perl/v5.8.0 And I am using the streaming filter api. [1] http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/filters.html#Multiple_Invocations_of_Filter_Handlers Long version below: ------------------- I have tried to make my outputfilter clever enough so it can handle being called several times, with tags potentially split between several brigades. Now I would like to test this somehow (ie, force mod_perl to call my filter several times). I tried using $r->rflush(), but cannot get it to work as I and the docs would expect. I tried creating a ResponseHandler which explicitly breaks some silly html data into brigades: sub handler { my $r = shift; $r->content_type('text/html'); $r->log_error ("Cutting"); $r->print ("<html><head> title </head>"); $r->rflush(); $r->print ("<bo"); $r->rflush(); $r->print ("dy> body "); $r->rflush(); $r->print ("</html>"); $r->log_error ("Cutting: end"); return Apache::OK; } And then a simple 'DebugFilter' output filter which just prints each chunk: sub handler : FilterRequestHandler { my $f = shift; $f->r->log_error ("DebugFilter called"); $f->print ("DebugFilter called\n"); while ($f->read(my $buffer, 1024)) { $f->print("CHUNK:$buffer:CHUNK\n"); } return Apache::OK; } And httpd.conf <Location /test/> PerlResponseHandler MyApache::Cutter PerlOutputFilterHandler MyApache::DebugFilter </Location> When I run this, I see that DebugFilter gets called 4 times (3 rflush's + 1 eos or something). But the strange thing is that only the _last_ call contains data. That data is _everything_ nicely concatenated and not splitted as I would guess. Here is actual output: $ wget --quiet -O - http://localhost/test/ DebugFilter called DebugFilter called DebugFilter called DebugFilter called CHUNK:<html><head> title </head><body> body </html>:CHUNK And the error_log: [Thu Jul 31 21:52:42 2003] [error] Cutting: start [Thu Jul 31 21:52:42 2003] [error] DebugFilter called [Thu Jul 31 21:52:42 2003] [error] DebugFilter called [Thu Jul 31 21:52:42 2003] [error] DebugFilter called [Thu Jul 31 21:52:42 2003] [error] Cutting: end [Thu Jul 31 21:52:42 2003] [error] DebugFilter called
