From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: More on git over HTTP POST Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:51:10 -0700 Message-ID: <48952B2E.3030209@zytor.com> References: <48938539.9060003@zytor.com> <20080802205702.GA24723@spearce.org> <20080803025602.GB27465@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 03 05:51:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KPUdP-0008VK-Iv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:51:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752132AbYHCDuy (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:50:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752097AbYHCDuy (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:50:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54007 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752091AbYHCDux (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:50:53 -0400 Received: from [10.71.1.72] ([12.197.88.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m733oqRk032062 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:50:52 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: <20080803025602.GB27465@spearce.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7918/Sat Aug 2 19:45:57 2008 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Chunked Transfer Encoding > ------------------------- > > For performance reasons the HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding is > used frequently to transfer variable length objects. This avoids > needing to produce large results in memory to compute the proper > content-length. Note: you cannot rely on HTTP/1.1 being supported by an intermediate proxy; you might have to handle HTTP/1.0, where the data is terminated by connection close. -hpa