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Saxon Druce
Saxon Druce

Reputation: 17624

App Engine: Is it possible to disable Transfer-Encoding: Chunked for large static files?

As a follow-up to this question, is it possible to disable the "Transfer-Encoding: Chunked" method for large static files, therefore forcing a Content-Length to be returned instead?

My site serves a few Flash files. The small ones (500-700kb) report a Content-Length fine, but the large one (approx 3MB) doesn't, instead using chunked mode.

Although the file downloads fine, the Flash preloader doesn't work, because it can't tell how long the file is, and therefore what percentage is loaded.

Is my only option to write a dynamic handler to serve the static file?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1062

Answers (1)

Eren Güven
Eren Güven

Reputation: 2374

Transfer-Encoding is in the list of Disallowed HTTP Response Headers (modifying them has no effect). source

Upvotes: 5

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