Will chunked encoding improve the performance of uploading/downloading?
asked Mar 10, 2011 at 6:39
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If you know the final complete size upfront, it can only be worse (compared to communicating the Content-Length in the header).
If you do not know, you have no other choice if you want to avoid collecting everything in a (potentially huge) buffer first (which would in fact degrade performance).
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I didn't read your answer carefully enough. I'm wrong. I deleted my comment. Commented Jul 24, 2016 at 13:42