Re: Magic Markers and MD5

Dean Gaudet wrote:
>
> I missed the beginning of this... but have you looked at HTTP/1.1
> chunking? It is specifically intended to send something safely for
> which the content-length isn't known initially.
hmm - interesting

> Oh damn, Apache 1.2 only uses chunked encoding when the client issues
> a 1.1 request... I wonder if I can convince the other developers to
> "extend" http/1.0 such that if the client sends "Accept-encoding: chunked"
> then it will use 1.1-style chunking. chunking is a MUST in 1.1.
We are essentially discussing it in context with
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/Devel/Todo/9704081.txt

So it's for inter-cache transfers... we could use the same technique
as HTTP 1.1 uses when chunking...

Oskar
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:41 MDT