Re: [mp2] [PATCH] implement ap_save_brigade

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Dorian Taylor wrote:
>>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.

Feel free to jump into the thread I've started on both apr-dev and 
httpd-dev list and ask for this to happen.

>>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.

May be Geoff's Apache-SSLLookup will help:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-SSLLookup/

>>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.

Why? Take a look for example at t/filter/TestFilter/out_str_buffer.pm (I 
should rename it to out_bbs_buffer.pm)


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