>>> Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/8/99 4:35:21 PM >>>
> Is the servlet
>responsibile for doing the chunking
>(I would guess not),
You'd guess right.
>does the servlet engine have to do this?
Should do yes.
Of course, it doesn't have to. The API (even 2.2) is not HTTP/1.1
specific and there are plenty of engines out there that don't do
HTTP/1.1, there are also some that do it but not properly.
Also, servlet engines do have other ways of acheiving the
content-length problem.
My own engine (gnupaperclips) before it was HTTP/1.1 compliant and
used chunked encoded output streams, used to buffer the whole output
of the servlet up to a configurable maximum (say 20Kb).
As long as the output was lower than the max the output was buffered
and then the content-length set when the output was done.
Nic
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