Re: Spiffy relies on content-length (was Re: [Chicken-users] Spiffy relies on removed proc.)

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:48:29PM -0400, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Well, you've got three options that I can think of:
> 
> 1) use a Content-Length header,
> 2) use a Connection: close header to prevent keep-alive,
> 3) use chunked encoding to send responses of arbitrary length, but
> retaining keepalive.

Ah, you've made a false assumption, I'm afraid, which is that I can
do any of those things.

With define-http-resource, *Spiffy* defines the headers, and it
never asks the body.  In fact, the headers are sent before the body
is run.

-Robin

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