The chunked transfer encoding allows the response to be broken up into multiple send calls (potentially spread over a large period of time).
This is useful whenever one does not know the complete size of the response at the outset -- or if the response is generated over a period of time.
An example use case of this is an external handler that implements the WebDAV COPY verb: one might want to provide continuous feedback (say, every 30 seconds) as the third-party copy progress so the client doesn't timeout and give up.
You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/pull/636
-- Commit Summary --
* First draft of the HTTP chunked encoding support.
* Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into http_chunked_response
* Verify we only set content length if present.
* Bugfixes for chunked encoding.
* Allow external handlers to use chunked encoding.
-- File Changes --
M src/XrdHttp/XrdHttpExtHandler.cc (14)
M src/XrdHttp/XrdHttpExtHandler.hh (8)
M src/XrdHttp/XrdHttpProtocol.cc (121)
M src/XrdHttp/XrdHttpProtocol.hh (23)
-- Patch Links --
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/pull/636.patch
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/pull/636.diff
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