plans for chunked encoding

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Fri Oct 19 14:13:10 UTC 2012


Hello!

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 04:07:04PM +0200, Luka Perkov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on a module that needs to handle POST requests by looking at
> the body. Thing is that some clients are sending chunked-encoded
> messages. I can not use HttpChunkinModule to get the body data because
> this module implements its own request body reading mechanism:
> 
> http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpChunkinModule#Known_Issues
> 
> In that case my module does not see request body :/
> 
> I have seen that reading chunked-encoded POSTs is on the roadmap:
> 
> http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap
> 
> I'm wondering if there is any work done on this already ? If so I could
> test some patches...

I'll post it here once there is something to test.

> By the way module will be released as GPLv2 once it's finished.

JFYI, this is much more restrictive than nginx's BSD license.

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