Here's a nice breakdown <http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/#http1.1c2> of
what clients expect when a response uses Chunked Transfer-Encoding.

- Mike

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Clifford Heath <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 14/04/2010, at 5:12 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote:
>
>> On 14/04/2010, at 5:02 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't the Rack API make it impossible?
>>>
>> Rack can be handed an input stream of indeterminate length via rack.input,
>> so in theory the API does support it. That being said, my blog entry was
>> about Passenger's support for accepting incoming requests with a chunked
>> transfer encoding, so I'm not sure what would be involved in chunking
>> outgoing requests for the purposes of speeding up page loads.
>>
>
> Hmm, ok. Anyhow, it sounds promising; does this mean that Passenger apps
> can receive
> partial data chunks, such as you might use in a COMET situation? I guess
> there's no
> real point unless Rack knows when to send partial output, but still...
>
> Clifford Heath.
>
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