From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:51:10 GMT
Subject: Re: More on git over HTTP POST
Message-ID: <48952B2E.3030209@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080803025602.GB27465@spearce.org>

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