chunked-encoding

Reading Body on chunked transfer encoded http requests in ASP.NET

A J2ME client is sending HTTP POST requests with chunked transfer encoding. When ASP.NET (in both IIS6 and WebDev.exe.server) tries to read the request it sets the Content-Length to 0. I guess this is ok because the Content-length is unknown when the request is loaded. However, when I read the Request.InputStream to the end, it returns...

Problem turning HTTP Chunking off in AXIS2

Hi I have a client sending me requests without HTTP chunking (they use content-length). When my server responds, chunking is enabled, and the client can't handle this - even though they should be able to as they are using HTTP 1.1..... I have tried to disable chunking by removing the entry below from the axis2 config file (axis2.x...

NSURLConnection chunked encoding upload - How?

I need to create a way to upload a bytestream using chunked encoding. I have a byte array that contains an audio file, I would like to send that file to a server using a chunked stream. I've been able to do a chunked upload via a native socket but I would really like to do this via one of the NSURL (NSURLConnection?) libs. Is that poss...

Chunked Encoding Implementation in .NET (or at least pseudo code)

I wrote a raw TCP client for HTTP/HTTPS requests, however I'm having problems with chunked encoding responses. HTTP/1.1 is requirement therefore I should support it. Raw TCP is a business requirement that I need to keep, therefore I can't switch to .NET HTTPWebRequest/HTTPWebResponse However if there is way to convert a RAW HTTP Request...

Why does IIS not support chunked transfer encoding?

I am making an HTTP connection to an IIS web server and sending a POST request with the data encoded using Transfer-Encoding: chunked. When I do this, IIS simply closes the connection, with no error message or status code. According to the HTTP 1.1 spec, All HTTP/1.1 applications MUST be able to receive and decode the "chunked" tran...

Are the chunk sizes in an HTTP response with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", significant to protocols that sit on top of HTTP?

Does anything carried inside HTTP care about chunk sizes? Some sort of RPC protocol perhaps? EDIT: Here's the Wikipedia sample response Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:22:21 GMT HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/plain Transfer-Encoding: chunked 23 This is the data in the first chunk 1A and this is the second one 0 The response coul...

Python HTTP server that supports chunked encoding?

I'm looking for a well-supported multithreaded Python HTTP server that supports chunked encoding replies. (I.e. "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" on responses). What's the best HTTP server base to start with for this purpose? ...

Web server - when should I use chunked transfer encoding ?

Looking at various web servers HTTP Headers, I notice that Google.com has: client-transfer-encoding: "chunked" What is chuncked transfer encoding and should I be using it on my web server? ...

Chunked transfer decoder, code snippet for C

I'm making a http server that merely allows access to my folder, download the files in it and also uploading to a folder. So far I have already done most of it, the only thing left is the uploading of the files. Whenever I receive files from a client, they send chunked datas. Which I dont understand to decode. All I need is a function th...

HttpWebRequest and Transfer-Encoding: chunked problem

HttpWebRequest is used to download files from ASP.NET site with basic authentication. Everything works fine in much cases. But some proxies make answer chunked and HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() throws an exception if answer with 401 code is chunked. The exception is: System.Net.WebException: The server committed a protocol violation. ...

Why does Comet need chunked-encoding response?

I read some articles about Comet tech. All of them mentioned that the long-life HTTP response should be Transfer-Encoding: chunked . I'm wondering why it should be chunked-encoded. If the response is not chunked-encoded, the client javascript can still read and parse the responded text, right? Is there any special reason that Comet resp...

HTTP Chunked transfer encoding: How do you send "\r\n"?

Say the body I'm trying to send via chunked encoding includes "\r\n", how do I avoid that being interpreted as the chunk delimeter? e.g. "All your base are\r\n belong to us" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding ...

How to disable transfer-encoding:chunked websphere

We have a webservice running on Websphere 6.1 using the IBM JAX-RPC based webservices. Client is sending requests without HTTP header of transfer-encoding:chunked (They specify content-length). The response from websphere always has transfer-encoding:chunked in the HTTP header. I assume this will result in the response being sent in mult...

Get Size of HTTP Response in Java

Hi, I would like to know how much data was sent in response to a certain http-request. What I currently do is this: HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) feedurl.openConnection(); //check the response for the content-size int feedsize = con.getContentLength(); The problem is, that content-legnth is not always set. E.g. w...

WCF Rest client and Transfer Encoding Chunked: Is it supported?

I have a datacontract as defined below: [DataContract(Namespace="",Name="community")] public class Community { [DataMember(Name="id")] public int Id{get; set;} [DataMember(Name="name")] public string Name { get; set; } [DataMember(Name="description")] public string Description { get; set; } } and the service...

Why is http-response in chunked transfer-encoding only for some clients

Hi! I have an asp.net mvc application running on IIS 7. The problem I'm having is that depending on client the response may be recived (as seen through fiddler) as "chunked transfer-encoding. What I can't understand is why this only happens to some of my clients (even if two computers is on the same network with the same browser (IE 8) ...

Anyone have sample code for doing a "chunked" HTTP streaming download of one web directly to a upload to a separate web server???

Hi, Background - I'm trying to stream an existing webpage to a separate web application, using HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse in C#. One issue I'm striking is that I'm trying to set the file upload request content-length using the file download's content-length, HOWEVER the issue seems to be when the source webpage is on a webserver for...

HTTP chunks: All chunks sent consecutively and uninterrupted?

Can I be sure that a chunked HTTP response will be sent uninterrupted by anything else? I need to differentiate responses (and requests) and this isn't a simple case of reading content length, seeing a closed connection or a no-body response code. Can I read each chunk and once chunk-size is 0 I will have read exactly one response (or r...

Grails multiple requests when using chunked transfer encoding

I am downloading a file through Grails, and am recording the fact that this file has been downloaded by this user, with code like: class MyController { private void recordTrackDownload() { def d = new Download(session.user, "/path/to/file") d.save() } def download = { def f = new File("/path/to/file...

(Chunked) HTTP binary message body and CRLFs

I cannot seem to get a definitive answer on the following question (Googling mostly and reading HTTP/1.1 specs): When 'chunked' transfer encoding is used, why does the server need to write out BOTH the chunk size in bytes and have the subsequent chunk data end with CRLF. Doesn't this make sending binary data "CRLF-unclean" and the metho...