From: Fredrik Tolf Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:51:53 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: Mention request-body chunking in ashd(7). X-Git-Tag: 0.12~13 X-Git-Url: http://www.dolda2000.com/gitweb/?p=ashd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=56e2d43462ee479c1e01677ac1b43f0397d77875 doc: Mention request-body chunking in ashd(7). --- diff --git a/doc/ashd.doc b/doc/ashd.doc index 144abfe..92416a7 100644 --- a/doc/ashd.doc +++ b/doc/ashd.doc @@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ variable called `HTTP_VERSION`. It is passed in full; i.e. as The response socket, as mentioned above, is also used for reading the request-body if the client provides one. For such purposes, *htparser*(1) ensures that the reader sees end-of-file at the end of -the request-body, so that the reader (unlike in, for example, CGI) -does not have to worry about the Content-Length header and counting -bytes when reading. +the request-body, allowing the reader (unlike in, for example, CGI) to +not have to worry about the Content-Length header and counting bytes +when reading, and also to handle chunked request-bodies in a natural +fashion. To respond, the handler program needs to write an ordinary HTTP response to the response socket. That is, one line containing the HTTP