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

On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote:

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> ISSUE-109: Do loaded/total count the bytes transferred with  
> encodings applied or not?
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> http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/webapi/issues/109
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> Raised by: Charles Mccathienevile
> On product: Progress Event
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> i.e. if you have a transfer-encoding or content-encoding, do you count
> the transfer size before or after you are unpacking?
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> Seems to me that it makes more sense to count the data with the
> relevant encodings applied - i.e. the number of bytes being pushed  
> over
> the wire (or over the air)...

Which one does the http protocol give you when you have a Content- 
Length header? There is some advantage to picking whichever that is,  
since otherwise you have to ignore Content-Length and the size will  
always show as unknown (since you can't predict the size change from  
content/transfer encoding).

Regards,
Maciej