anyone know of a tool which can generate chunked HTTP/1.1 _requests_?

chandru chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@REDACTED
Tue Nov 22 10:49:35 CET 2005


Hi,

On 21/11/05, Matthias Lang <matthias@REDACTED> wrote:
> chandru writes:
>
>  > I've patched ibrowse to be able to do this.
>
> TYVM
>
>  > Just out of curiousity - why do you need the client sending
>  > chunked data?
>
> I extended an HTTP server I wrote to handle chunked requests. As a
> sanity check, I wanted to try it with an implementation beyond my own
> test code.
>
> It turns out that my implementation and ibrowse have at least one bug
> each. RFC 2068 says:
>
>    Messages MUST NOT include both a Content-Length header field and the
>    "chunked" transfer coding. If both are received, the Content-Length
>    MUST be ignored.
>
> ibrowse sends it and my server fails (failed) to ignore it. Thanks.

Hmmm...I thought I had taken care of this - but I'll look again.
Thanks for the bug report.

Chandru



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