Re: Parser running twice?

"Brian McQueen" <[email protected]> writes:

> I noticed that there are two temp files generated by apreq when I am
> uploading data.  When the files are really big, like gigabytes, that
> becomes a problem.

mod_apreq spools the entire request to a tempfile, so you have that
on plus the tempfile created for each file upload.

> Does it seem right that there should be two temp files?  The seem to
> be identical - at least when the request is completed and they are not
> yet deleted, I can see that they are the same size.  It looks like the
> parser must be running twice for some reason.  The procedure is fairly
> simple, but maybe I got it wrong.  I am doing these steps:
>
> 1) apreq_handle_apache2 - init apreq

> 2) ap_setup_client_block
> 3) ap_should_client_block

Not necessary.  If you're in a handler, call ap_discard_request_body
instead and mod_apreq will not need to spool the request.

-- 
Joe Schaefer