Re: legality of Transfer-Encoding: chunked bodies in HTTP/2

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5 August 2014 14:00, Osama Mazahir <OSAMAM@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > +1 for allowing Chunked.
>
> HTTP/2 is inherently chunked.  You don't have to send Content-Length,
> though we do like to encourage it.  Stripping the decoration (the
> chunking) is necessary if you want to make DATA frames.  Otherwise we
> have HTTP/2 implementations needing to know about the details (and
> corresponding mess) of HTTP/1.1 framing.
>

​Completely agree.
​

> When it comes to reforming into 1.1, you can make your own assessment
> about how to translate.  If you have content-length, then chunked
> encoding isn't neccessary, even if it was originally chunked.
>
>