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diff --git a/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/httputil.go b/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/httputil.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..74fb6c655 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/httputil.go @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +// 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" + +// 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 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 newChunkedWriter(w) +} |