etc.curl: Formal review begin

[Sean Kelly]

You're right of course. I even do this pretty regularly. Dunno what I was thinking. 

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On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Jonas Drewsen <jdrewsen at nospam.com> wrote:

> On 31/08/11 01.17, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> 
>>> HTTP really isn't the ideal protocol for this sort of thing.  By default, the entire file would be in the message body, which isn't really asynchronous.  Chunking is an alternative, but there's no way to do this from the client-side, it's purely a server thing.
>> 
>> I stand corrected--it looks like libcurl lets you enable chunking.  I will say, however, that I've never actually see a chunked upload from a web browser, regardless of size.  It's kind of interesting that libcurl will do this.
> 
> Chunked transfer is only really necessary when you do not know the size in advance. I doesn't mean that you cannot use asynchronous IO when doing unchunked transfers. When you know the file size you can just set the file size in the http header and send the file asynchronously piece by piece.
> 
> /Jonas