Re: mod_deflate and chunked encoding

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On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:01 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> you need to be more specific.
>
> HTTP 2.x has a filtering schema which applies -protocol- filters
> after all -content-. ÂModules are presumed to generate content
> unless they manipulate the filter stack.
>
> mod_proxy dechunks the backend response (it's entirely possible
> for httpd to accept chunking, and the proxy client to not accept
> it as HTTP/1.0), since T-E is a hop-by-hop header.
>
> So whatever *app server* you have that is chunking and not being
> dechunked is an issue with the module you have receiving the
> chunk response in httpd. ÂChunking is not part of the CGI spec,
> therefore it's invalid input to mod_cgi[d]. ÂIt's completely
> legitimate for mod_proxy_http. ÂTomcat has no such issues that
> I'm aware of.
>
> So what app server are you talking about?

I am testing this with Phusion Passenger and Unicorn.

They are going to implement compression for chunked responses. That
is, they are going to dechunk, compress, and chunk again, mod_deflate
won't be involved for these responses.

Is that what you'd expect to be needed?

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