Re: [users@httpd] Urgent : mod_proxy + chunked encoding

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Upgrade to 2.0.55 (it is, curently, still a release candidate).
If you want to help test the candidate (and announce your results here)
you can always find 'pending' candidates over at the developer's
download page, http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/.

Bill

david micheneau wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Is it very urgent to find a way:
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> We are currently using the "mod_proxy" (proxy + reverse proxy) Apache 
> module to forward some HTTP requests to an external HTTP
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> standalone server application. The HTTP clients contacting our front 
> Apache server are using chunked encoding + HTTP POST.
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> Our problem is that when Apache forwards the HTTP requests to the 
> external HTTP application, they are no more chunked,
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> and they don't have any content-length header either.
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> The HTTP application contacted handle correctly chunked requests, or 
> normal requests with content-lenght, but the
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> case of normal requests without content-length is not handled properly :(
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> So, the question is: is there any way to:
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>   a) make Apache forwarding HTTP requests without any modification (keep 
> the body chunked).
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> or
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>   b) make Apache adding the body content-length, as it knows the total 
> length of the body he as "unchunked".
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> Or, maybe if you have any idea of another solution ?
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> Thanks for your help,
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