From: Rui Prior [mailto:rpr...@dcc.fc.up.pt]
> IMO, exposing such degree of (low level) control should be avoided. I disagree on principle :). If we want true webapps we need to not be afraid to give them capabilities (like POSTing data to S3) that native apps have. > In cases where the size of the body is known beforehand, Content-Length > should be generated automatically; in cases where it is not, chunked > encoding should be used. I agree this is a nice default. However it should be overridable for cases where you know the server in question doesn't support chunked encoding.