- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 11:02:24 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, Eric J Bowman <mellowmutt@zoho.com>, Ietf Http Wg <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Often clients that speak 1.0 are those which want to advertise that they
> will *not* parse chunks and will instead consume data after the empty header
> till the end of the connection.
Good point. It is actually a fairly common pattern in curl land:
- user wants to know the size of the transfer upfront but gets chunked
reposne
- adds option to go HTTP/1.0
- server then gives Content-Length: in response
- user remains using HTTP/1.0 for that use case
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/ daniel.haxx.se
Received on Friday, 4 September 2020 09:03:03 UTC