Hi Joshua, You are right: the client states it is HTTP\1.1. In this case the client specification is not compliant with http\1.1. I'll try your suggestion.
Thank you Luca On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:43 PM, michel platini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > the problem is that apache set the header content-encoding to be chunked > > before send the response. > > this is a problem because the client is not http\1.1 compliant and > doesn't > > work if there are no content-length header. > > > > infact using browser all works fine even though in the download window > there > > are no information about content length. > > > > So I ask you if you know some workaround to unable the header > > content-encoding so the client can see content-length. > > It's not the header itself that is the problem, it is the chunked > encoding. > > The first question I'd ask is why the chunked encoding is getting sent > in the first place. Apache should only send chunked if the client > states in the request-line that it is HTTP/1.1. Is the client lying > about what it supports? > > Under the assumption that you have a broken client, you can use > BrowserMatch ClientUA downgrade-1.0 > See: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/env.html#special > You may also need nokeepalive, depending on the nature of the clients > problems. > > None of this will actually get you a Content-Length header. Apache > can't generate that in any reasonable way, because it doesn't know the > content-length before sending the response. If you want a > Content-Length, you'll need to get resin to calculate it and send it > out. > > But even an HTTP/1.0 client should be able handle a non-chunked > response without content length. The server simply closes the > connection to indicate that all the content has been sent. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
