On Tue, 1 May 2007, Khai wrote: > My code open a socket and talk HTTP/1.1 to a remote web server, but I > notice extra characters in the response, so I use lwp-download > http://www.genius.com/index.html and capture the response with a > packet analyzer (ethereal). The packet analyzer show 1ff8 after the > response header and a 0 at the end of the response. When I look at > the downloaded file, these characters are not there. > > I tried this with another web server http://www.webex.com/index.html, > and see the same symptoms. Any idea what these characters are and > what lwp-download does with them?
The response uses "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", which is described here in the HTTP/1.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.41 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6.1 -- Liam Quinn
