RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
> Can you provide some more information to be able > to reproduce your test over here? Just make a web page like the one described. Enable mod_deflate and load the page in your favorite browser that has debugging (Firebug, IE9, Chrome, etc). In my case, it appears Apache selects the chunked e

Re: [users@httpd] Disable huge SSL logs in case when LogLevel i sset to debugdebug

2011-05-31 Thread Igor Galić
- Original Message - > Dear users, > > I have try to find out how to set SSL logs from debug to info even > when I have setup LogLevel to debug. > My log /var/log/apache2/error.log contains as debug logs from the > module as SSL logs and this is not > readable well. > > Do you have any id

Re: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Xavier Noria
Thanks a lot Geoff. Can you provide some more information to be able to reproduce your test over here? And how many chunks did the response contain? In addition to that, if someone with first-hand knowledge of Apache or browser internals could shed a light I'd really appreciate it. Reverse enginee

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like'

2011-05-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > But I had the impression from reading the documentation that the > "access_log" was to > record actual ACCESSes , ie. for requests that at least pass the "is a > valid HTTP request" test , > and that non-requests, if logged at all, should

Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2.x configuration for high load servers

2011-05-31 Thread sunhux G
I'm new to Apache & to my environment too. We run 4 Apache V2.0.52 & I've seeing high load averages (of 3 to 13) reported by "top" on the Linux RHES 4.6 for the 1, 5 & 15 minutes avgs on 3 of our webservers. All the servers' CPU are generally idle except one webserver which sometimes hit 90-100%

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like ' "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" ' ??

2011-05-31 Thread Jason Vas Dias
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 15:37:17 Ben Timby wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jason Vas Dias > wrote: > > I guess this is just opportunist hosts trying to connect to port 80 / port > > 443 with a garbage protocol ? > > If so, why are log entries made in the access log and not in the error

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like ' "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" ' ??

2011-05-31 Thread Ben Timby
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > I guess this is just opportunist hosts trying to connect to port 80 / port > 443 with a garbage protocol ? > If so, why are log entries made in the access log and not in the error log ? Jason, this looks like a host connecting to port 443

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like'

2011-05-31 Thread Jason Vas Dias
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 15:16:00 Larry W Burton wrote: > Jason, > Congratulations. You are the likely target of a kiddie script attempting a > buffer overflow or "dot dot" variant. Check your error logs and your access > logs to ensure that the attempts were not successful. You can expect 10-20 > of

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like '

2011-05-31 Thread Larry W Burton
Jason, Congratulations. You are the likely target of a kiddie script attempting a buffer overflow or "dot dot" variant. Check your error logs and your access logs to ensure that the attempts were not successful. You can expect 10-20 of these attacks per day. Larry Dr. Larry Burton Associate Profes

[users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like ' "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" ' ??

2011-05-31 Thread Jason Vas Dias
Now finally able to host a website on my home static-IP ADSL connection, using Linux (FC-14) apache httpd-2.2.17-1.fc14.x86_64 , with "IP-passthrough" and "Full NAT" enabled on the ADSL router so it assigns my host its own WAN address , I'm seeing these strange entries in the access log : 117.24

RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
> My test showed (according to Firebug) that the 15 MB > page downloaded in 618ms. Should clarify that on disk, the page was 14,254,523 bytes but after deflating, I downloaded a mere 314 bytes of headers (uncompressed) plus the 41,841 byte response body (compressed) for a total payload of 42,

RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
> Goal is to get the HEAD of HTML documents in the client side as soon > as possible ...thus having a more responsive page... Agreed! > Can anyone confirm or deny this... +1 I ran a quick test on a 10MB file that looks like this: About 15 megabytes of dummy ascii text here... And my FF4

Re: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Xavier Noria
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Geoff Millikan wrote: >> ...is it possible that mod_deflate works by chunks... > > Why are you doing this?  It's not to increase client-side performance because > correct me if I'm wrong here but it's been my > understanding that the web browser cannot start dec

RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
> ...is it possible that mod_deflate works by chunks... Why are you doing this? It's not to increase client-side performance because correct me if I'm wrong here but it's been my understanding that the web browser cannot start decompressing the page until it receives the final chunk. Based on

Re: [users@httpd] redirect https to http

2011-05-31 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Frank, thanks. I looked at the compatibility and that does not look too good as we have loads of people using IE7 and XP, not sure ... it looks good, though. Our company uses Firefox 3.68 so thats not the problem but I have online questionnaires that rely on the https stuff, and lots of our clie