RE: HTTP chunk transfer

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Pierre VOISIN wrote:

>     I've read some stuff on HTTP chunk transfer mode but I don't
> really understand what my HTTP messages should be to transfer an
> entity to a server. Could you write me an example of message to
> transfer an entity with chunks? For example an entity which size is
> 2048, what are the message (first, next, ..., last) that will be
> sent to the server if I use 512-sized chunks?

Here is an example (extracted from a test trace) of an HTTP response
message transferring a 20-byte entity (cygpjmlomtdjwfelowxv) using two
10-byte chunks:

	HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n
	Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n
	Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:32:17 GMT\r\n
	\r\n
	a\r\n
	cygpjmlomt\r\n
	a\r\n
	djwfelowxv\r\n
	0\r\n
	\r\n

All necessary details are in the section 3.6.1 "Chunked Transfer
Coding" of RFC 2616, of course.

HTH,

Alex.

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