> > When I have this server behind a proxy server (using mod_proxy in > > apache 1.3 or 2.0), the output comes out in big chunks. > > Let me guess: for values of "big" in the region of 8Kb? You got it ... great guess ;) > > > I've tried setting ProxyIOBufferSize and ProxyReceiveBufferSize to > > Won't help. The proxy is designed to run efficiently. The delays you are > introducing are a bad mismatch with HTTP, so they'll only work with HTTP > under benign "too simple to fail" conditions. Proxy simply doesn't meet that, > at least until your chunk size rises sufficiently above apache's default heap > bucket size (8K) that buffering your data won't dominate. > > > Ideally mod_proxy would recognise the message as multipart and treat > > it accordingly, but if it just transmitted the data a byte at a time > > that would also work for me. > > It could be made to do either of those with a suitable module to parse your > contents. But in HTTP terms - which is all mod_proxy speaks out-of-the-box, > it is NOT multipart. It's a *single* HTTP response, whose *contents* (which > the proxy won't unpack) happens to be MIMEd. > > Kind-of like expecting the proxy to treat every entry in a .tar or .zip file > as separate. Lots of work, nothing to gain. The whole point of tarring or > zipping your files is to shift them efficiently, and that's what proxy does. Very many thanks for the detailed response. I understand things a lot better now. What I am trying to do is to serve an HTML page which is dynamically updated via a multipart xmlhttp message. I get javascript permission errors if the server I try to connect to isn't the one that the original HTML was retrieved from. And seeing as I'm using reverse proxying to load balance, it seems therefore that I have to go through the proxy. I have got this same sort of thing working with a java applet instead of xmlhttp, as this does not seem to be bound by the same restrictions. Any ideas for the best way round this? Thanks Michael Smith --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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