Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool needs to have an option to ignore varying length documents. This could be a flat ignore option, or threshold valued argument. Why? In CGI environments the document length isn't necessarily sable. On the first iteration of a bench test, ab saves the length of the document in a variable called doclen. It then uses this as a comparison of what subsequent document lengths should be. Therefore, if the page being tested isn't stable in document length, the tool reports massive amounts of `Failed requests` due to `Length`. This makes the tool useless for sites that don't have documents of stable length.
This was already the behaviour with the version that comes with apache 1.3. See #27888. Definitely broken I'd say.
+1 ;)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 27888 ***
Christophe, could you update and reopen #27888?
No, because I get: You are not permitted to edit bugs in product Apache httpd-1.3. Anyway, I'll take the proposals in #9945, #42040 and #27888 and will apply it to trunk and propose to backport for 2.4.x Having such a switch makes sense to me.