[erlang-questions] httpc sending empty te header

[Vincent de Phily]

On Thursday 01 April 2010 08:56:29 Ingela Andin wrote:
> From HTTP rfc:  "If the TE field-value is empty or if no TE field is
> present, the only transfer-coding is "chunked""

Fair enough, that explains why the behaviour is not wrong. But in that case, 
why add the header at all ? You'd save yourself two lines of code, a tiny bit 
of CPU, 5 bytes on the wire, and some confused users.

> > * What's the usefull difference between the "accept-encoding" and the
> > "te" headers ?
> 
> The first one concerns content encoding the second one transfer encoding.

Thanks for these explanations, and sorry for not taking the time to check the 
RFC myself.
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