- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 11:05:27 +0200
- To: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Cc: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, Eric J Bowman <mellowmutt@zoho.com>, Ietf Http Wg <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:02:24AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > 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 They're lucky because it could perfectly just deliver the data and close! > - user remains using HTTP/1.0 for that use case Sure, most of the time, once a solution appears to work, it stays forever. Willy
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