- From: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hsteen@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:04:08 +0100
- To: Gomer Thomas <gomer@gomert-consulting.com>
- Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Gomer Thomas <gomer@gomert-consulting.com> wrote: > According to IETF RFC 7230 all HTTP recipients “MUST be able to parse the > chunked transfer coding”. The logical interpretation of this is that > whenever possible HTTP recipients should deliver the chunks to the > application as they are received, rather than waiting for the entire > response to be received before delivering anything. > > In the latest version this can only be done for “text” responses. For any > other type of response, the “response” attribute returns “null” until the > transmission is completed. How would you parse for example an incomplete JSON source to expose an object? Or incomplete XML markup to create a document? Exposing partial responses for text makes sense - for other types of data perhaps not so much. -Hallvord
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