[Tilecache] TileCache and Keep-Alive

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:53:14PM +0200, Guillaume Sueur wrote:
> Actually, I did make ab handle KeepAlive HTTP connection by using a raw 
> ApacheReq.headers_out['Content-Length'] = len(image)
> in modPythonHandler.
> I'm not sure it has any impact on a classic use of TileCache, i.e. via a 
> web browser.
> So, is it worth to submit this patch against the trunk ? For me it looks 
> more like a hack for ab, and it seems to be confusing regarding the 
> 'chunk' transfert-encoding which is designed NOT TO specify the 
> content-length.
> I'm not an HTTP guru, but as I can read in its specs 
> (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html):
> If a message is received with both a Transfer-Encoding header field and 
> a Content-Length header field, the latter MUST be ignored.

We don't use transfer-encoding. content-length can't hurt anything. I'd
be happy to see it added to all the handlers. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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