Re: Problems with chunked encoding

> I had the same problems.
> Some SonyEricsson HTTP protocol implementations use "Transfer-Encoding:
> chunked" to post MMS. In case with Apache http server i got a
> HTTP_LENGTH_REQUIRED 411.
> This is why, because according to
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/client_block_api.html, Apache delegates
to
> solve how to read client input to other application level modules
> (mod_cgi,mod_perl,mod_php,etc...), and none of them intend to produce
> "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
>
> To solve this i was forced to write mod_dechunk apache module, which acts
> with request on more early stage them other modules and produce http posts
> with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked". It collects chunks, writes combined
data
> to temporary file, set environment variable DECHUNKED_FILE with value of
> path to temp file, and delete temp file on
> apache request cleanup. Using together, other modules
> (mod_cgi,mod_perl,mod_php,etc...) can determine this case
> (Transfer-Encoding: chunked) finding environment variable DECHUNKED_FILE,
> and obtain posted data from file locating variable value.

  I did not have any problems with Apache2 and chunked encoding POST. As I
wrote in original message if I used HTTP mode of posting MMS everything
worked fine even if transfer encoding was chunked. Problems appeared in
WSP mode when MMSes have to pass kannel.

  Mindaugas