Christoph, I had a mod_buffer module written for me by Konstantin Chuguev (konstan...@chuguev.com) which collects chunks and buffers them for transfer in one shot. You should contact him and see whether he'll give/license it to you.
-Tony --------------------------- Manager, IT Operations Format Dynamics, Inc. 303-573-1800x27 abia...@formatdynamics.com http://www.formatdynamics.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Gröver [mailto:gro...@sitepark.com] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:07 AM > To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Preventing the use of chunked TF encoding while content- > filtering > > > Hello list, > > > I have written a module which does filtering the content. > > It gets those buckets and works on them and passes on the brigade of > buckets. OK, works perfect for nearly all conditions. > > Execpt .... > > When the user runs the infamous Internet Explorer and uses a > misconfigured proxy, it doesn't. > > With the help of some debugging we have found out what happens: The > proxy is not HTTP/1.1-aware, which means it just changes the > HTTP-response to be HTTP/1.0, but it keeps the > 'chunked transfer encoding' of the original content. > > Almost all browsers recognize that it's still chunked although the > header claims to be HTTP/1.0 and do the right thing. > > MSIE doesn't. It gives the user the content and displays it with those > hex encoded chunk lengths in it. > > Of course, this breaks website design and often the functionality. > > So, what can we do about it? > > We cannot change the proxy people are using and we cannot fix their > misconfigured proxies (or their broken proxies). > > We cannot tell them to not use MSIE, either. > > > So we should tell the Apache Webserver to not use 'chunked transfer > encoding'. I thought this might be possible by just saying > > r->chunked = FALSE; > > But it didn't help. > > So after some talking: Is there a way to get rid of CTFE ? > > Perhaps if we collect all the chunks, put it in one chunk and set a > ContentLength-Header ? > > Or is there another trick to do this? > > Greetings from Münster, looking forward to your ideas. > > -- > Christoph Gröver, gro...@sitepark.com > Sitepark GmbH, Gesellschaft für Informationsmanagement, AG Münster, HRB > 5017 Rothenburg 14-16, D-48143 Münster, Telefon (0251) 48265-50 > Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Phys. Martin Kurze, Dipl.-Des. Thorsten Liebold
