* Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> lör 2007-04-07 klockan 09:18 +0200 skrev André Malo:
> > Hmm, you may get something wrong here. The httpd does apply chunked
> > encoding automatically when it needs to. That is in keep-alive
> > situations without given or determineable Content-Length.
> >
> > Why doesn't it do it in all other cases? My answer is: because it would
> > be useless (as in: not of any use :-).
>
> I don't agree fully here. chunked is not useless in the non-keepalive
> case. What it adds there compared to the HTTP/1.0 method of just closing
> the connection is error detection. A receiver seeing the connection
> closed before the final "eof" chunk knows something went wrong and the
> response is not complete. If chunked is not used the receiver usually
> can not tell that there was a problem.
Ah, hmm. True :)
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