Re: Is HTTP/1.0 still relevant?

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Fri, 04 September 2020 09:14 UTC

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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 11:13:20 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
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On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:08:24AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 
> > >  - server then gives Content-Length: in response
> > 
> > They're lucky because it could perfectly just deliver the data and close!
> 
> Yes absolutely. And it somewhat puzzling to a client-oriented mind like mine
> that there are servers that opt to go chunked even though they apparently
> have the size ...

Maybe they actually go the hard way and buffer everything just to
count... I've already seen such horrors a long time ago.

Willy