Question about com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpExchange#sendResponseHeaders

[Wenbo Zhu]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:58 PM Daniel Fuchs <daniel.fuchs at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Wembo,
>
> On 01/02/19 19:50, Wenbo Zhu wrote:
> > 1) clarify in the API javadoc that chunked encoding is always applied
> > even with Connection: close
>
> Chunked encoding is always applied if 0 is passed to
> sendResponseHeaders (this is a bit counter-intuitive, but
> 0 means chunked coding and -1 means Content-Length: 0 or
> no content - depending on response code, and n > 0 means
> Content-Length: n).
>
> Yeah, it could be better ... but I can live with this, 0 meaning
"content-length unknown when response headers are generated".


> Whether chunked coding is applied or not bears no relationship
> with Connection: close whatsoever.
>
> On the client side - if we have 200 with no Content-Length
> header and no Transfer-Encoding then we don't expect the
> content to be chunked. We simply drain the bytes until
> EOF is reached.
>
> Is this what you mean by always applied?
>
Yes.



>
> best regards,
>
> -- daniel
>
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