On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Apache 2: > > I have a requirement to look at content length and if it is greatar > than desired size then return error message. So psuedo code is like: > > if content_length > 32G > then > if url contains /abc/ > then > echo "0|abc|Bad length" # pipe delimited format that some > clients api support > else if url contains /def/ > echo "<xml><message>Bad request</message><xml>" # client supporting XML > fi > fi > > I first thought of using LimitRequestBody but that didn't work for me. > So now I am thinking if I can use filter or handlers. Does anyone know > if I can use filters that is read the lenght and the url and then > return the response instead of continuing down the chain. > > P.S. Note: Our requests are mod-jk requests. So if content length > check succeeds then hand over the request to mod jk workers wihch then > send it to jboss app server. > If you know this stuff is not chunked, you can do a simpler post_read_request hook and return 413 from it. If it might be chunked, it should be relatively easy to rip the guts out something like mod_deflate's input filter and teach it to count bytes / return an error. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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