From: "J. Merrill" <jvm_cop@SPAMCOP.NE­T>>Reply-To: "Discussion of advanced .NET topics."><ADVANCED-­DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVEL­OP.COM>>To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DIS­CUSS.DEVELOP.COM>Sub­ject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] HttpListenerRequest­ and chunking>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:00:02 -0500>

It's not common for an HTTP client to send chunked data to a server, though>an HTTP 1.1-compliant server is required to be able to accept it. Are you>really expecting it? The cases where the length of the data to be posted>are unknown are rare. (I suppose it could happen if you're posting a>Unicode- or UTF8-encoded file using a different Content-Encoding, but why>would you do that?)>

As there's no mention of chunking being explicitly supported (e.g. there's>no ReceiveChunked boolean property to match the SendChunked boolean>property of HTTPListenerRespons­e) I would guess that you'll have to handle>it yourself, by interpreting the information in the InputStream. And>you'll have to handle it in sections, as you'll want to read as data is>available (to avoid the buffering of a potentially huge block of data).>

The tool you'll need to build, I think, will need to accept two streams,>one that you get from the InputStream property and one that you instantiate>to receive the output. The tool will call BeginRead and exit, having set>up to handle the EndRead.>

Sounds interesting....>

At 11:54 AM 3/16/2006, John Davis wrote> >Does this support chunking? If so, how does it work? Samples anyone?>

J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp>

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