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+// Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package httputil provides HTTP utility functions, complementing the
+// more common ones in the net/http package.
+package httputil
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"net/http/internal"
+)
+
+// NewChunkedReader returns a new chunkedReader that translates the data read from r
+// out of HTTP "chunked" format before returning it.
+// The chunkedReader returns io.EOF when the final 0-length chunk is read.
+//
+// NewChunkedReader is not needed by normal applications. The http package
+// automatically decodes chunking when reading response bodies.
+func NewChunkedReader(r io.Reader) io.Reader {
+	return internal.NewChunkedReader(r)
+}
+
+// NewChunkedWriter returns a new chunkedWriter that translates writes into HTTP
+// "chunked" format before writing them to w. Closing the returned chunkedWriter
+// sends the final 0-length chunk that marks the end of the stream.
+//
+// NewChunkedWriter is not needed by normal applications. The http
+// package adds chunking automatically if handlers don't set a
+// Content-Length header. Using NewChunkedWriter inside a handler
+// would result in double chunking or chunking with a Content-Length
+// length, both of which are wrong.
+func NewChunkedWriter(w io.Writer) io.WriteCloser {
+	return internal.NewChunkedWriter(w)
+}
+
+// ErrLineTooLong is returned when reading malformed chunked data
+// with lines that are too long.
+var ErrLineTooLong = internal.ErrLineTooLong