[squid-dev] [PATCH] Anticipated connection closure disables chunking

[Amos Jeffries]

On 11/05/2016 2:03 a.m., Eduard Bagdasaryan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patch allows chunking the last HTTP response on a connection.
> Squid should avoid signaling the message end by connection closure
> because it hurts message integrity and sometimes performance. Squid
> now chunks if:
> 
>   1. the response has a body;
>   2. the client claims HTTP/1.1 support; and
>   3. Squid is not going to send a Content-Length header.
> 
> Squid used to exclude to-be-closed connections from chunking
> because chunking support was added (trunk r10781) specifically to
> optimize persistent connection reuse and closing connections were
> incorrectly excluded as a non-interesting/out-of-scope case.
> 

+1. Looks okay to me. Thank you for this.

Amos