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. > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en