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From: Costin Manolache <cmanolache@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [5.0] [PROPOSAL] Make output buffer size limit configurable
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:41:07 -0700
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Remy Maucherat wrote:

> Bill Barker wrote:
>>>How about making the output buffer size limit configurable?
>>>(A value of "-1" could mean indefinite growth, if people know what they
>>>are doing.)
>> 
>> I also dislike the proposal, but since it's configurable, and off by
>> default
>> I can limit myself to -0.  The biggest problem I see is that "if people
>> know what they are doing", then they would never dream of enabling the
>> option :).
> 
> I will vote -1 to the proposal:
> - this has no actual performance benefits that I can see
> - this is equivalent to a "benchmark" flag, where the server is slightly
> faster, but isn't useful for anything but throughtput testing (since the
> server would eventually just die)
> 
> Do you see such a benchmark setting in the HTTPd ? I think not.
> I have nothing about people optimizing code, but the optimizations
> should have an actual usefulness (such as tag pools, which some people
> like). If the optimization makes the server unusable, then it shouldn't
> be there.


It can also be useful if you have a client that doesn't support "chunked
encoding" - which is probably true for a _lot_ of scripting tools. 
If there is any other way to have the response not use chunked encoding,
then I agree this is not needed. 

Do we still support HTTP/1.0 or some request header to disable the encoding?

Costin


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