Re: What is Content-Length?

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:

> 
> 	If a message is sent on a persistent connection using
> 	a transfer-coding that does not exactly preserve the
> 	length of the data being encoding, then the "chunked"
> 	transfer-coding MUST be used, and MUST be the last
> 	transfer-coding applied.
> 

Is there a reason to require that chunked be applied after a
self-delimiting transfer encoding?  There would be a (probably
slight)  performance penality for doing it and I don't see the
purpose.

John Franks
john@math.nwu.edu

Received on Friday, 12 December 1997 16:46:24 UTC