- From: Philip Thrift <thrift@osage.csc.ti.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 06:14:39 -0600 (CST)
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: thrift@osage.csc.ti.com
Regarding the use of the "chunked" coding for persistent connections,
I am confused how this will work if the proxy must remove this
encoding according to the language below.
>From the draft:
> C.5 Introduction of Transfer-Encoding
>
> HTTP/1.1 introduces the Transfer-Encoding header field
> (Section 10.39). Proxies/gateways must remove any transfer coding
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> prior to forwarding a message via a MIME-compliant protocol. The
> process for decoding the "chunked" transfer coding (Section 3.6)
> can be represented in pseudo-code as:
Here the chunked transfer represents a single, potentially unbounded
POST request and the server can be concurrently transmitting response
data during the request.
Philip Thrift
thrift@ti.com
Received on Saturday, 25 November 1995 04:18:32 UTC