"Paul A. Rombouts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew M. Bishop wrote: >> I will not be including any code to insert the Content-Length header >> and I do not have a patch that would add it. > > For what it's worth, I do not agree with Andrew's assessment. When > downloading a fairly large file, a Content-Length header enables the > browser (or wget or whatever) to display a progress bar, which I find > very useful.
ACK. The greates problem for me is not to know how big is the file. I must live with a 56k modem line and it's essential to know how big is a file before you start downloading it. > In the version of WWWOFFLE that I maintain for personal use, I try to > retain the Content-Length header or even add one when the length of the > response to the client can be known in advance. I do not use chunked > encoding in this case. Would you publish this patch? I'm not familiar with the wwwoffle code, but where is the problem? Doesn't wwwoffle has an outgoing queue or a send module, where the content-header become generated? Bye, Jörg. -- Der Wille, und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.
