Currently, the limit up to which the size of an org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.OutputBuffer may grow is identical to the original buffer size:
public OutputBuffer(int size) {
bb = new ByteChunk(size);
bb.setLimit(size);
...
cb = new CharChunk(size);
cb.setLimit(size);
}As a result of this, if the response does not fit in the output buffer, the buffer is flushed, and the response does no longer include a "Content-Length" header. Instead, it includes a "Transfer-Encoding" header whose value is "chunked":
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
It may be useful (e.g., for some benchmarks such as TPC-W) to be able to configure a connector such that the buffer size of its responses grows infinitely, in which case the above "setLimit" calls would not occur and the response would always include a "Content-Length" header, no matter how big.
I am proposing a CoyoteConnector attribute "outLimited" (I am open to other naming suggestions), whose possible values may be "TRUE" (default) or "FALSE": if "TRUE", the output buffer size limit is set to the output buffer size (current behaviour), and if "FALSE", an output buffer may grow infinitely.
Comments?
Jan
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