Re: ISSUE-109: Do loaded/total count the bytes transferred with encodings applied or not?

Julian Reschke wrote:
>> It gives the encoded length, since Content-Length is how many bytes 
>> you need to read from the connection.
> 
> This is true for Content-Encoding, but IMHO not for Transfer-Encoding. 
> Don't confuse them! :-)

Ah, indeed.  The relevant text in RFC 2616 section 14.13 
("Content-Length") is:

    Applications SHOULD use this field to indicate the transfer-length of
    the message-body, unless this is prohibited by the rules in section
    4.4.

and section 4.4 says:

   3.If a Content-Length header field (section 14.13) is present, its
     decimal value in OCTETs represents both the entity-length and the
     transfer-length. The Content-Length header field MUST NOT be sent if
     these two lengths are different (i.e., if a Transfer-Encoding header
     field is present). If a message is received with both a
     Transfer-Encoding header field and a Content-Length header field,
     the latter MUST be ignored.

So as long as servers are compliant, the issue of Transfer-Encoding 
combined with Content-Length is moot anyway (and in that case, the 
chunked stuff is used to determine the transfer-length).

-Boris