That's exactly the type of thing I was looking for. I'll dig into it first think Monday.
Thank You! Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support (517)703-2580 -----Original Message----- From: Ivan Ristic [mailto:ivan.ris...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 4:12 PM To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Cc: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: POST Body Buffer? Are your multi-megabyte submissions going to use multipart/form-data encoding? If so, ModSecurity does exactly what you need when you enable request body buffering. Ivan On 19 Jun 2009, at 21:01, "Houser, Rick" <houser.r...@aoins.com> wrote: > I'm facing a situation where we may be required to handle multi- > megabyte POST submissions from dial-up users. We want to avoid tying > up the backend servers for long periods of time if possible. Does > anyone know of either built-in support for pre-buffering complete POST > request bodies (i.e. avoid streaming through to the WAS plug-in) or a > module that would do that same? > > If no, does this approach sound right? > > Input filter that: > (a) determines if it should do anything (looks at the content-length, > URL, etc.) > (b) looks at each bucket (AP_MODE_PEEK?), holds a reference, and > returns a empty brigade unless EOS found > (c) if EOS found, the output brigade is filled with all the existing > buckets > > I'm currently running 2.0, but could bump up my migration to 2.2 if > there's a specific feature that would help. > > > Thanks, > > Rick Houser > Auto-Owners Insurance > Systems Support > (517)703-2580 >
