TE

TE

 

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The poorly named TE header functions like the Accept-Encoding header, but for transfer encodings (it could have been named Accept-Transfer-Encoding, but it wasn't). The TE header also can be used to indicate whether a client can handle headers in the trailer of a response that has been through the chunked encoding. See Chapter 15 for more on the TE header, chunked encoding, and trailers.

Type

Request header

Notes

If the value is empty, only the chunked transfer encoding is acceptable. The special token "trailers" indicates that trailer headers are acceptable in a chunked response.

Basic Syntax

TE: # (transfer-codings)

transfer-codings= "trailers" | (transfer-extension [accept-params])

Examples

TE:

TE: chunked