Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 88984 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2003 23:14:58 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Dec 2003 23:14:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 91401 invoked by uid 500); 10 Dec 2003 23:14:39 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 91288 invoked by uid 500); 10 Dec 2003 23:14:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: dev@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 91272 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2003 23:14:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Dec 2003 23:14:38 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUDXZ-0002yb-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:14:45 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: dev@httpd.apache.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: dev@httpd.apache.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUDXY-0002yS-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:14:44 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUDXY-0004xN-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:14:44 +0100 From: Joe Schaefer Subject: Re: filtering huge request bodies (like 650MB files) Date: 10 Dec 2003 18:14:42 -0500 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <3FD7A3EA.7040403@stason.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Sender: news X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Cliff Woolley writes: [...] > Yes, that would be the real problem. So somewhere there is a filter > (or maybe the proxy itself) buffering the entire data stream before > sending it. That is a bug. >From the proxy_http.c source in HEAD, it looks to me like mod_proxy buffers the entire incoming request body unless it's able to send it via chunked encoding. However, "proxy-sendchunks" needs to appear in the r->subprocess_env table for that to happen, and AFAICT there's no code in httpd-2.0 which does that. -- Joe Schaefer