- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:52:12 +0100
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:09 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: >>> 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? > > It gives the encoded length, since Content-Length is how many bytes you > need to read from the connection. The specification should probably also cover the case when Content-Length is not accurate. I suppose either .total would change then (and perhaps the boolean attribute if it's added back). -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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