Handling HTTP chunked encoding with django

I have a problem handeling http chunked transfer encoding.

I'm using:

• apache.
• mod_wsgi plugin.
• django.

django, is only capable of handling reqular http request with content-length header field, but when it comes to handling TE (Transfer-Encoding), chunked or gzip, it returns an empty result.

I'm thinking of 2 approaches:

1. Making some modification to django.wsgi python file
2. Add some middleware python file to django, to intercept any chunked http request,convert it to requelar http request with content-length header field, then, pass it to django, where it can handle it nicely.

Anybody can help with any of the above 2 options (more options are most welcome of course)

Thanks!

This is an extention to my question after Graham's first anwer:

First of all, thanks for your quick response. The client being used is Axis, which is a part of another company's system communicating with ours. I had WSGIChunkedRequest On set, I also made some modifications to my wsgi wrapper like this:

def application(environ, start_response):

    if environ.get("mod_wsgi.input_chunked") == "1":
        stream = environ["wsgi.input"]
        print stream
        print 'type: ', type(stream)
        length = 0
        for byte in stream:
            length+=1
        #print length    
        environ["CONTENT_LENGTH"] = len(stream.read(length))

    django_application = get_wsgi_application()
    return django_application(environ, start_response)

but it gives me those errors (extracted from apache's error.log file):

[Sat Aug 25 17:26:07 2012] [error] <mod_wsgi.Input object at 0xb6c35390>
[Sat Aug 25 17:26:07 2012] [error] type:  <type 'mod_wsgi.Input'>
[Sat Aug 25 17:26:08 2012] [error] [client xxxxxxxxxxxxx] mod_wsgi (pid=27210): Exception occurred p