I think I misremembered 19.4.6 in RFC 2616. The Content-Length: needs to
be updated to be sent on with a dechunked proxy request, since proxies
must remove transfer-coding.
That doesn't get sent as a trailer.
Chuck
On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 12:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Also, I don't think we update Content-Length: in the chunked trailers
>> yet.
>> Chuck
>
> Does anyone?
>
> I've looked at a LOT of real-time captures from all over the world
> and I don't recall ever seeing anyone add 'Content-Length:' back
> to the Entity Headers at the end of a chunked transmission.
>
> Actually... to tell the truth... I don't think I've ever seen anyone
> anywhere use that part of the HTTP spec whereby you can
> add/update header fields at the end of the transmission. I also
> don't know of any clients that would have the faintest idea how
> to handle that ( Headers fields coming AFTER all the data arrives ).
> It's usually way too late for that part of the RFC to have any
> effect at all on what's happening unless the Entity header
> pertains to what's supposed to happen AFTER the data arrives
> ( Like changing 'Connection: Keep-Alive' to 'Close' somewhere
> during the chunked transfer ).
>
> Kevin Kiley
>
Chuck Murcko
Topsail Group
http://www.topsail.org/
