André Warnier wrote: > Hi. > As regarding the overall content-length header, has anyone re-checked > the relevant part of the HTTP RFCs ? I haven't yet, but I seem to > remember that for chunked encoding, each chunk has an individual length, > but there is no overall content-length. > Which would meake sense, because at the time the initial headers are > sent out, the total length is not necessarily known. > In terms of CGI, that would mean that when Apache calls the CGI module, > it cannot set the CONTENT-LENGTH as an environment value, since it isn't > known yet. That's what it does, yup. In fact the combination is prohibited, so the content length header is unset in the presence of chunked encoding. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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