Re: CommonLogger (and Clogger) generates strange symbols in the response body

["Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net>]

2009/9/4 Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>:
>> As you can see, the number above each real body line is the length of the line
>> below it (in hexadecimal when > 10).
>
> This is chunked transfer encoding as defined in rfc 2616, section 3.6.1.
> Any HTTP/1.1 client should be able to interpret and decode it correctly.

Thanks a lot, I didn't know it.


> Both CommonLogger (from Rack 1.0) and Clogger (by default) wraps the
> original response body with something that responds to #each to
> correctly calculate the size of the body.  This can throw off the
> Rack::ContentLength middleware that your server probably already loads
> for you (the Thin and Mongrel handlers both appear to load both
> Rack::Chunked and Rack::ContentLength).
>
> For performance reasons, the next version of Rack will instead log the
> existing "Content-Length" header if one exists, and '-' if it doesn't;
> skipping the wrapping of the body[1].

Does it mean that with the next version I would get a non chunked
transfer encoded body even if I use CommonLogger?

Thanks a lot.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>