ilya goberman wrote:
I was thinking more about it. What if Tomcat disables chunked encoding if response
contains "Connection: close" header.
So in order to disable the encoding the Tomcat application will have to set
just one response header.
I think it is a reasonable enhancement to do. If "Connection: close" is not
set, keep alive functionality is preserved.
Any objections?
Yes.
The sysadmin may decide, for whatever reason, to disable keep-alive connections.
In that case Tomcat will add a "Connection: close" to any response, and close the
connection at the end of the response.
But that does not mean that the one response sent back, could not be from some application
generating a dynamic response for which the size is not known in advance, thus triggering
a chunked response.
Now in addition I am thinking of this :
sputnik
/ \
/ \
/ \
client <--> something <-- --> something <--> tomcat
The "somethings" in-between could decide that to go through the sputnik, it makes no sense
to have the message in one piece - or in multiple pieces - and re-slice it or re-assemble
it in the way best suited to go up and down.
Since the transfer-encoding is just that, they are allowed to do that.
So basically any scheme that relies on the transmission being chunked or not,
is doomed, no ?
I love ascii art.
:-)
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