- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:51:51 -0800
- To: Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote: > > > ISSUE-109: Do loaded/total count the bytes transferred with > encodings applied or not? > > http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/webapi/issues/109 > > Raised by: Charles Mccathienevile > On product: Progress Event > > i.e. if you have a transfer-encoding or content-encoding, do you count > the transfer size before or after you are unpacking? > > Seems to me that it makes more sense to count the data with the > relevant encodings applied - i.e. the number of bytes being pushed > over > the wire (or over the air)... Which one does the http protocol give you when you have a Content- Length header? There is some advantage to picking whichever that is, since otherwise you have to ignore Content-Length and the size will always show as unknown (since you can't predict the size change from content/transfer encoding). Regards, Maciej
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