Posted by Anze on 03/21/07 08:40

>> Now: there is Keep-Alive header, but no Content-Length. How does the
>> browser know when the content is finished?
>
> does it have to know?
> mostly they take a stream and render it if they can.

Yes, they have to know - otherwise page rendering wouldn't be much stable.
Of course they try to render a page asap, but still... Coding a browser
that wouldn't know when a page ended would be unnecessarily much harder.

But this is solved through chunked encoding which I wasn't aware it existed.

Thank you for your answer!

Best,

Anze

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