Mike, please open a ticket in Bugzilla (if using Jetty 7) or JIRA (if using
Jetty 6). This sounds like a bug, and most likely needs to be fixed.

-Michael

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Mike Pilone <[email protected]> wrote:

> I spent the last half a day trying to figure out why I was getting
> "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" in my responses from Jetty even though I was
> setting the Content-Length header. What I finally figured out is that there
> is a bug/strange interaction with the GZipFilter.****
>
> ** **
>
> The GZipFilter wraps the response object and filters any addHeader calls.
> If the header is content-length, it stores the length but doesn't pass the
> header on to the real response. This is fine if the response is to be
> zipped, but when the content-type header is set, the gzip response wrapper
> properly determines that the response should not be zipped based on my mime
> type list. However it never passes on the content-length header to the
> original response. This causes the HttpGenerator to default to chunked
> encoding.****
>
> ** **
>
> It looks like line GZipStream tries to be good about passing on the
> content-length header if there is data in the buffer and it is told not to
> gzip (around line 252). But if there is no gzip stream created, as is the
> case around line 299 of GzipResponseWrapper, the header is never passed on.
> It looks like the GzipStream should always be created but set to doNotGzip
> during mime-type filtering or the wrapper needs to be smarter about passing
> on the header when short-cutting the GzipStream.****
>
> ** **
>
> Unfortunately I don't think I can use the GZipFilter until this is fixed
> because my client (Windows Media Player) won't buffer/live stream a response
> unless it gets a Content-Length header in the initial response. I don't see
> any good work around other than trying to limit the filter by pattern in my
> web.xml to avoid particular files.****
>
> ** **
>
> -mike****
>
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