[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4779: Proposal for HTTP POST and REQUEST API

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#4779: Proposal for HTTP POST and REQUEST API
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 Reporter:  darkdragon                    |        Owner:  jacobsantos
     Type:  enhancement                   |       Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal                        |    Milestone:  2.7        
Component:  Optimization                  |      Version:             
 Severity:  normal                        |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  needs-patch needs-unit-tests  |  
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Comment (by santosj):

 I think it is possible to support chunk transfer-encoding in the other
 transports. It seems some servers are sending HTTP/1.1 responses, when the
 requests were sent using HTTP/1.0. It means that when the response comes
 back it is most often chunk transfer-encoded, which screws up major
 portions of the site.

 I'm going to build a custom test suite for testing the HTTP API, because
 using the official Automattic !WordPress Tests isn't exactly working for
 me. I'm going to extend the test suite to cover the chunk decoding (the
 algorithm doesn't seem difficult). It should also allow for users to test
 the transports on their system (much like the plugin upgrader debug
 plugin). Doing it this way should mean that it won't concern the developer
 with having to test the response for chunk encoding.

 The ExtHTTP transport supports it, therefore all of the others need to
 support it also.

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