On Aug 23, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:32:20 +0100 > Tim Bannister <is...@jellybaby.net> wrote: > > >> That's quite neat, then. I will try to make an actual implementation in Lua. >> The part I found difficult was the interaction with the second >> transfer-encoding, “chunked”. Using gzip Transfer-Encoding: implies using >> chunked, because we want to shorten the response and this means that the >> Content-Length definitely doesn't match the size of the HTTP response body. > > gzip is a content-encoding, not a transfer-encoding.
It is both. Transfer-Encoding is the correct way to implement it. > That makes it easy to implement: content filters and protocol > filters work at different levels, so can coexist without trouble. Except that they aren't standards-compliant because they don't handle etags correctly. Content-Encoding works with more clients but is much harder to implement correctly. ....Roy
