Re: [Tclhttpd-users] HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer-encoding support

[Colin M. <co...@ch...>]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 17:15 +0200, Heyligen Tom wrote:

> The client sends multiple messages/chunks to the server, indicating
>  "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" in the header of the 1st message. 
> Each chunks carries its own size indicator. The chunked encoding series
>  is correctly ended by a chunk whose size is zero.
> 
> Unfortunately, TclHTTPD replies with a 411 error (length required).
>  This Httpd_Error seems to be generated in the HttpdRead procedure 
> from lib/httpd.tcl when state equals "0,mime".
> 
> So, my question is: is chunked transfer-encoding supported?
>  If so, what could be missing? If not, any plans to implement it in future versions?

I've noticed this too, and my conclusion is that transfer-encoding is
not properly supported.  Tclhttpd supports a mostly useful subset of
HTTP1.1 spec, but certainly not the whole thing.

Sorry to respond tersely and uninformatively, but I have no idea whether
T-E will ever be supported.

Colin.