Just remembered, got around it by using HTTPClient
which handles reading the response (chunked or not)
transparently. Haven't looked at the nutch code, but
if we were to use HTTPClient 3.0.x or later, should
take care of it.

--- Chris Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Furthermore, we can read in HTTP/1.1 specification
> > that "A server MUST NOT
> > send
> > transfer-codings to an HTTP/1.0 client".
> 
> I once did an socket implementation against
> Anonymizer. This is well established proxy service
> that services $100K+ government and private
> contracts.
> 
> Their server always sent chunked content despite all
> headers. I'm pretty sure that there are other well
> established servers that send chunked content
> despite
> the rfc.
> 
> Guessing that it might have something to do with
> wanting to control content compression. All the
> browsers can handle it, and that's probably all
> apple
> is concerned with - even though they're overriding
> an
> rfc spec req.
> 
> Chris
> 
> --- Jérôme Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > http://www.apple.com for example answer with
> > chunked content also if
> > > you request with a http 1.0 header.
> > 
> > 
> > Stefan,
> > 
> > I don't see any "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
> header
> > in responses from
> > www.apple.com
> > Furthermore, we can read in HTTP/1.1 specification
> > that "A server MUST NOT
> > send
> > transfer-codings to an HTTP/1.0 client".
> > 
> > Jérôme
> > 
> > --
> > http://motrech.free.fr/
> > http://www.frutch.org/
> > 
> 
> 

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