Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet. - tagged with http

Enabling nginx Chunked Transfer Encoding - Server Fault

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:40:00 -0500

Server Fault thread in which I found the answer to a question I had about nginx and chunked encoding - an answer I had written earlier myself!

Michael Caplan / Blog / Don't Forget to Flush

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:03:00 -0600

An excellent article explaining the benefits of prematurely flushing the first part of the web server's response, in particular the page headers. Discusses chunked encoding and content compression as well.

[users@httpd] Chunked + Gzip

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:01:00 -0600

Beginning of a thread about apache which describes mod_deflate and chunked transfer encoding working together such that each chunked is individually gzipped. The thread doesn't resolve the question of whether this is allowed, but demonstrates that it works (and that apache/mod_deflate exhibits this behaviour by default).

View HTTP Request and Response Header

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:55:00 -0600

Simple tool for inspecting the headers of the response sent back by a webserver. Doesn't do anything that Firebug or Chrome dev tools don't do, but it's lightweight and requires no installation.

chunkview

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:42:00 -0600

A tool for viewing details of individual chunks sent back in the response from a webserver which is using the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" feature of HTTP/1.1