chunked response transfer encoding

[Per Buer]

Hi


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Antony Mayi <antonymayi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my backend is sending chunked response (~100chunks, 100bytes each). it
> seems varnish then sends it again using chunked encoding but only as one
> big chunk. the app is sort of a json streaming system and the whole point
> of sending the responses in chunks is for the client to be able to handle
> each chunk asap once they are available. unfortunately varnish cumulates it
> into (which means waits for) one big chunk so the whole advantage of early
> client processing is gone.
>
> is there any way to control this in varnish - ie. some timeouts or buffer
> sizes etc (not interested in piping)?
>

This would require streaming. Varnish 3.0 will wait for the whole object to
arrive before forwarding it. Use Varnish 4.0 or dig out the streaming
patches. Set do_stream = true.



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