On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:09 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i.e. if you have a transfer-encoding or content-encoding, do you count
the transfer size before or after you are unpacking?
Seems to me that it makes more sense to count the data with the
relevant encodings applied - i.e. the number of bytes being pushed over
the wire (or over the air)...
Which one does the http protocol give you when you have a Content-
Length header?
It gives the encoded length, since Content-Length is how many bytes you
need to read from the connection.
The specification should probably also cover the case when Content-Length
is not accurate. I suppose either .total would change then (and perhaps
the boolean attribute if it's added back).
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Anne van Kesteren
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