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Hello all, For the last couple of days I was trying to get my Apache/mod_proxy/mongrel setup to limit the size of the request body. The setup is as follows: 1.) Apache acts as a reverse proxy by facilitating mod_rewrite and mod_proxy 2.) Requests for non-static files are passed on to a mongrel_cluster 3.) We use mongrel for our Ruby on Rails application Note that due to some restrictions we are

I''m using mongrel as my http server. I was using yslow to evaluate the performance of my web site and noticed I was downloading the .css file on every request??? I use one .css file for the whole site and I though I would be cached? Yslow indicates that there is no expires date/time set for the css file. How can I tell mongrel to send an expires header with my static content? thanks,

If you append an extra percent sign to a URL that gets passed to mongrel, it will return a Bad Request error. Kind of odd that "http://localhost/%" causes a "Bad Request" instead of a "Not Found" error. Here is the error from the mongrel log: HTTP parse error, malformed request (127.0.0.1): #<Mongrel::HttpParserError: Invalid HTTP format, parsing fails.>