Re: Support for gzip at the server #424

* Martin Thomson wrote:
>On 14 March 2014 02:20, Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de> wrote:
>> ISIZE is in the footer and not the header.
>
>So that leads me back to the original conclusion.  Since
>intermediation from 2 to 1.1 will require the Content-Length and
>extracting that from a gzip'd body would require buffering an entire
>request, I'm inclined to say that this is too hard.

It would help if you explain why you think Content-Length is needed in
this scenario. `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` is supported by servers and
intermediaries. Likely not perfectly, but if that is the concern we
should make that very explicit.
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