Just a quick note on the successful resolution of this; it's a bug in
Apache
1.3.24 with the handling of chunked data from proxies, details here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-devm=101805692511019w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-devm=101810478231242w=2
and
Hi,
More info on my problem with my proxied (via Rewrite rules) mod_perl
apache giving responses that were a) topped tailed with message size
and 0 respectively, and b) delayed for about 15 seconds; thanks to
Igor S. for tipping me off that this was chunking and therefore it was a
HTTP
