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

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>> i.e. if you have a transfer-encoding or content-encoding, do you count
>> the transfer size before or after you are unpacking?
>>
>> 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?

It gives the encoded length, since Content-Length is how many bytes you need to 
read from the connection.

-Boris

Received on Monday, 29 January 2007 15:12:19 UTC