[go-nuts] Disable chunked encoding in responses

John Graham-Cumming <jgrahamc@gmail.com>
writes:
Certainly the easiest way to do this would be to create an
http.Request and write it to a socket and read until an empty line
(using Request.Write).

I think any http response reader that sees chunked will give you a
body that compensates for both chunked and content length
automatically. But reading the response is pretty straightforward.
net/textproto can handle much of it for you if you actually do want
access to the headers.

Also: Why do you want the chunk info? That *feels* like you might be
doing something weird.

I am doing something weird. I work on a special HTTP proxy that is
doing compression of HTTP response bodies. Ideally I want those in the
most non-munged fashion so that I reduce buffering.

John.

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I'm also interested in getting raw access to the chunks, but don't want to
reimplement the rest of HTTP with a raw socket or net/textproto. It seems
like making the chunkedReader from pkg/net/http/chunked.go a public type
might make this easier, since then I can reach the underlying Reader.

Would a change to the standard library like that make sense?

(I would also like to proxy HTTP with low latency.)

-- paul