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HTTP/1.1 Transfer-Encoding header field

This standard HTTP header field is defined in RFC 2616

The Transfer-Encoding general-header field indicates what (if any) type of transformation has been applied to the message body in order to safely transfer it between the sender and the recipient. This differs from the content-coding in that the transfer-coding is a property of the message, not of the entity.

If multiple encodings have been applied to an entity, the transfer-codings MUST be listed in the order in which they were applied. Additional information about the encoding parameters MAY be provided by other entity-header fields not defined by this specification.

Many older HTTP/1.0 applications do not understand the Transfer-Encoding header.


Common Transfer-Encoding header values:

Sample Transfer-Encoding web server response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 5206
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:53:46 +0000

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
...
...

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