Re: [mp2] [PATCH] implement ap_save_brigade

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> I'm not getting very far with this, Dorian. Neither httpd-dev nor apr-dev 
> are taking it anywhere. So at the moment ap_save_brigade is sort of an 
> unstable API, so other developers think we shouldn't expose it in the core 
> API. So at the moment you have two options:

hm, this is unfortunate.

> 1) write an XS code in your module which will add this code.

as long as it's relatively straight-forward, i think i'd opt to do this.

> 2) rewrite the code not to use this API, instead use a scalar buffer or an 
> array and append the data their flattening the brigades on each invocation.

ap_save_brigade was unfortunately the only way i could come up with
for intercepting the body of a response so that it doesn't get sent
to the client, and that its contents may be used for other things.

> Please let us know whether this works for you. Thanks.

i can get on this in a few days.

cheers

.d