[Varnish] #1506: Backend replies with 'Content-Length' but varnish 4.0 discards and replies with 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked'

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#1506: Backend replies with 'Content-Length' but varnish 4.0 discards and replies
with 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked'
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 Reporter:  DonMacAskill  |       Owner:  slink
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Varnish 4.0 release
Component:  build         |     Version:  4.0.0
 Severity:  critical      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |
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Changes (by slink):

 * owner:   => slink
 * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 This bug is in the gray area between bug and improvement as http/1.1
 clients MUST support chunked encoding:
 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6.1

 The workaround for this issue is to disable streaming, see
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23643233/how-do-i-disable-transfer-
 encoding-chunked-encoding-in-varnish

 I think we might be able to use C-L also with streaming. I am working on
 this and got a poc patch, which needs more work still before I'd like to
 discuss it.

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Ticket URL: <https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1506#comment:1>
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