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2.2     ! frystyk     3:   <TITLE>W3C Reference Library libwww Chunked Transfer Encoding and Decoding</TITLE>
2.1       frystyk     4: </HEAD>
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2.2     ! frystyk     6: <H1>
        !             7:   Chunked Transfer Encoding and Decoding
        !             8: </H1>
2.1       frystyk     9: <PRE>
                     10: /*
                     11: **     (c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
                     12: **     Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.
                     13: */
                     14: </PRE>
2.2     ! frystyk    15: <P>
        !            16: Chunked transfer encoding and decoding is new in HTTP/1.1. It allows applications
        !            17: to use persistent connections while not knowing the content length a priori
        !            18: to the response header is generated.
        !            19: <P>
        !            20: Both the encoder and the decoder are of type
        !            21: <A HREF="HTFormat.html#encoding">HTCoder</A> which is defined in the
        !            22: <A HREF="HTFormat.html">Stream Pipe Builder</A>. This means that bot the
        !            23: encoder and the decoder are registered dynamically and called by the Stream
        !            24: Pipe Builder if required.
        !            25: <P>
        !            26: <B>Note</B>: These streams are <I>not</I> set up by default. They must be
        !            27: registered by the application. You can use the default initialization function
        !            28: <CODE>HTEncoderInit()</CODE> function in the
        !            29: <A HREF="WWWInit.html">initialization interface</A>.
        !            30: <P>
        !            31: This module is implemented by <A HREF="HTTChunk.c">HTTChunk.c</A>, and it
        !            32: is a part of the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Library/"> W3C Reference
        !            33: Library</A>.
        !            34: <P>
        !            35: <PRE>#ifndef HTTCHUNK_H
2.1       frystyk    36: #define HTTCHUNK_H
                     37: 
                     38: #include "HTFormat.h"
                     39: </PRE>
                     40: <PRE>
2.2     ! frystyk    41: extern HTCoder HTChunkedDecoder, HTChunkedEncoder;
2.1       frystyk    42: </PRE>
                     43: <PRE>
                     44: #endif /* HTTCHUNK_H */
                     45: </PRE>
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2.2     ! frystyk    49:   @(#) $Id: HTTChunk.html,v 2.1 1996/04/18 01:41:49 frystyk Exp $
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