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a series of A1-sized posters about the HTTP protocol
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Transfer-Encoding description incorrect #16

Closed strtok closed 11 years ago

strtok commented 11 years ago

Here's the description on the poster:

Transfer-Encoding The method of encoding used to transfer the response (defined methods: chunked, compress, deflate, gzip, identity)

compress, deflate, gzip are all possible values of the Content-Encoding header, not Transfer-Encoding. The only possible values for Transfer-Encoding are chunked or identity.

jfhbrook commented 11 years ago

Sharp eye! I'll confirm and fix this when I get to the office.

jfhbrook commented 11 years ago

Took a look, according to iana the current value is correct: http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/http-parameters.xhtml (scroll down)