- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:50:10 +1300
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 20/03/2012 9:19 p.m., Adrien de Croy wrote: > > > On 20/03/2012 6:53 p.m., Adam Barth wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Adrien W. de Croy wrote: >>> OK, so what we're saying is that the 0 chunk is basically redundant. >> What if you want to send another response? Don't you need to >> terminate the first response somehow? > > ok, I'll re-phrase. The 0 chunk becomes expendable if the server closes. Only to the browser and only iff the connected server or proxy wanted connection:close anyway. All the middleware will be trying to use connections more efficiently and use pipelines. That all depends on 0-chunk termination to keep connections open and requests flowing. > > this isn't much different to the case where there's no content length > and the server closes without chunking. Exactly the same case AFAICT. The fact the server is actually sending all the response bytes is a coincidence. AYJ
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