On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:52, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > So it comes down to "Is the extra expense of chunked encoding a price > worth paying so UAs and proxies can tell if a response was unexpectedly > truncated, eg due to network error?" > > I don't have any hard figures (I'll see if I can come up with some) but > my instinct is that this would be a price worth paying. >
I forgot to mention that Apache HTTP Server uses chunked encoding also when it receives a "Connection: close" header. I do not know if they analized the trade-off but in any case this is what they do. Oscar
