On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Guy CHEMLA wrote:
> Could someone please explain why does Apache issue a "Connection: close"
> when wget requests a cgi? Pasting below requests of IE and wget and
> Apache's responses to each. Does Apache have a reasons to suspect wget's
> ability to deal with chunks?
It doesn't just "suspect" that, it knows. Wget issues a HTTP/1.0 request and
then it (the server) can't reply with a chunked response. Since it doesn't
know the size on beforehand, it can only send the response as Connection:
close.
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