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RE: Content-Length Vs Chunked Transfer Encoding

From: Patrick Monnerat <Patrick.Monnerat_at_datasphere.ch>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:39:52 +0200

Sandeep Sastry wrote:
> Is there a way for me to still get the progress bar going, though the
server does not send Content-Length?

This seems rather hard to compute a percentage of the total size if you
don't yet know the total size ;-)

Hint: when the total size is not known before download starts, some
downloaders just make the bar moving forth and back to show there is
some download activity and graphically illustrate transfer speed...

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Received on 2014-06-26