I'm streaming http from Go and the server responds with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" as expected. And I've been told that the http client in Go shall automatically dechunk the body from the http response, removing the \r\n. But in my case it isn't removed automatically, so I have to use a ChunkedReader to read the bodies.
Any idea why golang doesn't dechunk my body automatically?
EDIT: Here is the http request:
var transport = http.Transport{
Proxy: nil,
ExpectContinueTimeout: 0,
MaxResponseHeaderBytes: 16384}
var httpClient = http.Client{
Transport: &transport,
CheckRedirect: func(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
return http.ErrUseLastResponse
}}
bodyReader, bodyWriter := io.Pipe()
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://x.x.x.x/stream", bodyReader)
response, err := httpClient.Do(req)
buffer := make([]byte, 2 << 15)
n, readErr = response.Body.Read(buffer) <-- should be dechunked body
The data read into the buffer is not dechunked. Any idea why?
I figured out why the body is not dechunked automatically. It's because the HTTP response was HTTP/1.0. In which case golang ignores the transfer encoding header.