Should I add HTTP "Transfer-Encoding" in Connection header?

Asked May 15 '14 at 19:41

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HTTP protocol states two things:

Transfer-Encoding is a hop-by-hop header and it must be removed by proxies.
Other hop-by-hop headers should be added in Connection header to tell proxies to remove them.

But, if everybody knows that Transfer-Encoding is a header that is removed anyway at every hop, then it is also necessary to add it in Connection header ?

asked May 15 '14 at 19:41

Marus Gradinaru

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"Transfer-Encoding [...] must be removed by proxies" I have a hard time believing this. Can you cite a relevant source? I couldn't find anything in RFC 2616 supporting this claim. – DaSourcerer May 16 '14 at 06:17
Here it is: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-13.5.1 – Marus Gradinaru May 16 '14 at 14:01
Ebay does add `Connection: Transfer-Encoding` – fukanchik Jul 12 '16 at 02:25

Should I add HTTP "Transfer-Encoding" in Connection header?

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