https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53169
Priority: P2
Bug ID: 53169
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: [patch] don't do chunking with Connection: close
Severity: minor
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: All
Status: NEW
Version: trunk
Component: Catalina
Product: Tomcat 7
Created attachment 28702
--> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=28702&action=edit
patch against trunk
The attached patch disables chunking on if there is a Connection: close header,
we're on HTTP 1.1 and there's no Content-Length header.
This helps to implement Server-Sent Events [1]. Server-Sent Event are
conceptually similar to the forever streaming iframe in the sense that there's
an "infinite" response from the server that always gets updated. But they're
easier to use and with less issues. They are also easier to use than WebSockets
if you don't need a back channel.
The specification reccoments to disable chunking. Jetty implements the same
behavior, when there's a Connection: close header it doesn't do chunking.
The following discussion [2] leads me to believe that patches would be welcome.
The patch comes with unit tests that verify that there is still chunking
happending when there is no Connection: close header.
[1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/#notes
[2]
http://tomcat.10.n6.nabble.com/How-to-disable-chunked-encoding-for-the-Http11NioProtocol-connector-td2038448.html
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