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Re: Error in http.lua's chunked encoding


From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:47:13 -0600

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:35:25PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
Responses to pipelined requests are supposed to either have a
Content-Length or use the chunked Transfer-Encoding, both of which
allow you to find the length of the body and the start of the next
response.

There are more cases than I summarized here. Section 4.4 of RFC 2616 has
all the details of determining message length.

David Fifield

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