HTTP Concepts

Chunked Transfer Encoding

An HTTP transfer mechanism where data is sent in chunks, allowing streaming responses without knowing the total content length upfront.

Related Protocols

HTTP

Mentioned in Guides

HTTP Request Lifecycle: From URL to Response HTTP Fundamentals

HTTP Trailers: Sending Metadata After the Body HTTP Fundamentals

Related Scenarios

206 Partial Content — Video Streaming Buffering Issues HTTP

Defined In

RFC 9112 HTTP/1.1

See Also

Range Request HTTP Concepts

Trailer Headers HTTP Concepts

Message Framing Protocol Design

Transfer-Encoding Web Standards

Client Streaming RPC gRPC & RPC