Agreed.

-Brian

On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Yehuda Katz wrote:

> I'm personally quite concerned about trying to figure out the  
> content-length in any Rack middleware. It's expensive to do in pure- 
> ruby, and a later middleware can mess with the size anyway and be  
> forced to recalculate. I think the appropriate place for this  
> calculation is in the actual server that sends the data to the  
> client, where it can be done once and in C.
>
> -- Yehuda
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net>  
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Christian
> Neukirchen<chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net> writes:
> >
> >> CommonLogger's concern
> >> is logging the request, not calculating content length edge cases
> >
> > The CLF includes the real response size, though.  It should be  
> correct
> > if you want to do traffic analysis with the existing tools.
>
> There is no standard "real" size. Most log the size of the entity body
> as represented by Content-Length. Some include HTTP header size. Few
> actually record the number of bytes sent to the client (mog_logio for
> apache does).
>
> jeremy
>
>
>
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> Yehuda Katz
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