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Noèl Köthe wrote:
>> what I did was capture a HTTP response using netcat and then feed it to wget
>> using netcat....
>>
>> cat capture | nc -lp 8083 &
>> wget http://localhost:8083/foo
>>
>> netcat didn't successfuly see the end of the file. - I think it may be
>> relying on chunk boundaries being aligned with packet boundaries.

...

> Can you reproduce this with newer wget versions (latest is 1.11.1 or
> with 1.10)?

Wget has zero support for chunked transfer encodings (and therefore, for
HTTP/1.1). It will only ever send HTTP/1.0 requests, which means that a
HTTP/1.1 response is illegal (as is the chunked encoding).

Obviously, we'd like to see this changed; but it's not a bug; more of an
obsolescence.

- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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