How about adding a constant for setting the CURLOPT_INFILESIZE that would
imply a dynamic length and request that libcurl perform the transfer in
chunked fashion?

e.g. CURLOPT_INFILE_DYNAMIC = -1

This would at least allow the user to have a more precise way of requesting
chunked encoding above setting a custom header without needing to add
another CURLOPT. Since you are"setting" the infilesize (even though it may
be unknown) this would seem to make sense to me and is what I did when I
wrote my chunked encoder wrapper. If I received a value of >=0 I just set
INFILESIZE to that. If I recv'd < 0, that signalled me to perform a
chunked transfer.

                                                                                                                                  
                      Daniel Stenberg
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Hey

Yesterday I made libcurl capable of by-force using chunked
transfer-encoding
when sending HTTP.

Currently, the library checks for the added custom header
"Transfer-Encoding:
chunked" and if that is present it'll enable the chunked-transfer stuff.

Is this good enough for the library or do we want an easier way to enable
this? It may be a bit too cryptic and not really something people would
just
guess or something...

Should I just add yet another CURLOPT-option?

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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