Re: [squid-users] Transfer-Encoding: chunked

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:53:35 +1300

Adam Squids wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using a reverse squid for caching purposes. When requesting a page
> in my site via HTTP/1.1 I see : Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> I understand that HTTP/1.1 has the ability to "cut up" a large server
> response and send it one chunk at a time.
>
> What would happen to my site if I remove chunked encoding?
> Will it slow it down? let's say the pages are big and it would be more
> efficiant to use chucks for the response, but what if I don't?
> Could it be that some clients will not support that?

Some will, some won't. As long as our site is doing it properly and only
sending chunks to clients who say they know HTTP/1.1 it's a good thing.

Amos

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