Re: Is HTTP/1.0 still relevant?

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Fri, 04 September 2020 09:09 UTC

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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 ...

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