Hi, I intend to have a CGI program extract a form field and deliver this data to an external system, but the field in question is likely to be huge. The server can't invoke the program until it knows the length of the request body, in order to set CONTENT_LENGTH in the program's environment. If the POST doesn't include a Content-Length field, the server will have to buffer the entire contents somewhere. Can it deal with huge message bodies, such as those exceeding virtual RAM, by saving to disc (for example)?
How does FastCGI/fcgid compare? Will it handle huge POSTs any better? My cursory reading of the FastCGI spec suggests that it doesn't have to know the content length to deliver it, because it is sent in chunks. Thanks, Steven --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
