Varnish is great at normalizing http headers. You could make this telco site a 
"backend" on varnish and continue on parsing in node.

sub vcl_recv {
  req.http.Content-Length = regsub(req.http.Content-Length, '^([0-9]+)', '\1');
}

On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Matt <hel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Marcel Laverdet <mar...@laverdet.com> wrote:
> By heavy load I'm talking about network traffic, either on your end, their 
> end, or any hop in between. "In the first packet" is certainly *not* 
> something I'd recommend anyone to depend on, as that depends on a whole lot 
> of things.
> 
> Not really - TCP is more reliable that way than you think. No matter the 
> load, that first "packet" isn't going to get fragmented to any smaller parts. 
> Especially since it's actually SSL, so it's not even really a packet, but an 
> event in node happening, with buffering already taking place.
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