Re: busybox wget
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:37:09PM +0000, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > * The chunked transfer encoding thing is a killer. Seems to break it on
> > a pretty large number of web sites. I guess you know about this
> > though.
> For the chunked issue, the thing is that we are not using busybox wget to visit
> slashdot, but rather we will be using it to pull down files. Files don't
> experience chunked transfer encoding, since there is only one chunk (unlike
> slashdot). So I think a much better test of what is or is not a killer is to
> grab files from a debian archive...
But the server _might_ as well use chunked even for files.
Nothing says it can't. Chunked degrades nicely back into
something like Content-Length, if you only have chunk.
(Background: there are three ways to move response body from
server to client;
1. everything-to-EOF is same body
2. content-length
3. chunked
And chunked looks (in principle) like tuples
<5, "abcde"><6, "fghijk"><1, "l"><2, "mn"><0, "">.
Thinking of read(2) may help in understanding.)
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