Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 11:53:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
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Subject: Re: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
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Even if you turn off keep-alive we should be chunking an HTTP/1.1
connection... are we not?  That's bad.  Chunking guarantees that the
client receives the entire file -- it's more than just a way to delimit
keep-alive sessions.

That said, IE4pr2 had lots of bugs.  I wouldn't be surprised if the
released version does too.  If you can get "tcpdump -s 1514 -w dump.out"
output to me we can figure out if it's our fault or IE's.

Dean

On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> Does chunking actually work in IE4?  I am getting internal errors from IE4
> on some of my pages sent from mod_php3.  Turning off keep-alive and thus
> chunking fixes the problem.  Setting a Content-Length and thus turning off
> chunking also fixes the problem.  Since pages are generated dynamically it
> is not really possible to know the content-length, and completely turning
> off keepalive for all mod_php3 served pages seems like a severe penalty to
> get things working for IE4.  Anybody run across
> this before?
> 
> -Rasmus
> 
>