[Varnish] #452: Support for chunked transfers on client requests

Varnish varnish-bugs at projects.linpro.no
Wed Feb 18 04:25:43 CET 2009


#452: Support for chunked transfers on client requests
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 Reporter:  joel  |        Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new   |    Priority:  normal     
Milestone:        |   Component:  build      
  Version:  2.0   |    Severity:  normal     
 Keywords:        |  
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 HTTP/1.1 allows for clients to send chunked requests.

 Varnish does not support this silently drops de content. It should support
 chunked POST requests in order to be RFC compliant.

 References:

 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.4
 All HTTP/1.1 applications that receive entities MUST accept the "chunked"
 transfer-coding (section 3.6), thus allowing this mechanism to be used for
 messages when the message length cannot be determined in advance.

 Similar issue with nginx: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/141307

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Ticket URL: <http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ticket/452>
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