I am testing a HTTP streaming server and trying to understand how streaming
works, which sends the following [1] headers. When cURL receives the
response, as expected, it waits there for some time for the server to send
some more data. I have two questions in this regard:

1- As you can see, there is no Transfer-Encoding: chunked header in the
response. It, as expected, lacks the Content-Length header. Is that the
hint for cURL to assume a streamed data? It's not clear from the Wikipedia
page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding> when the
client should assume chunked data to come from server.

2- What is the value of the timeout that cURL uses in this case before
closing the connection? Is that configurable? (My cURL version: curl 7.21.6
(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0e
zlib/1.2.3.4libidn/1.22 librtmp/2.3)

Best Regards,
Kedar

[1] Headers received:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Set-Cookie: ...
Connection: close
Server: thin 1.5.0 codename Knife

PS - cURL is a great tool. Thank you!

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Received on 2013-02-11