Feature Request: Support chucked data streams to better support HTTP1.1 clients

[GeorgeKerwood]

Firstly, many congratulation on, and thanks for, your fantastic project! It's been a great help to me and I much enjoyed the book which has improved invaluable alongside.

I would humbly request that you consider supporting the chunked transfer encoding of http 1.1 client streams. I have recently completed a project deploying WiFiNina on an Arduino Nano 33 IoT which integrates a NINA W-102 WiFi. Since the library does not support http 1.0 degradation, a very large part of the work effort was preparing various REST API responses to "load" the JSON content to buffers prior to deserialization.

Many Thanks,

George

[bblanchon]

Hi George,

I will add a new decorator in the StreamUtils library, but I'm very busy at the moment, so I cannot give any ETA.

When you say "the library does not support http 1.0 degradation", which library are you talking about?

Best regards,
Benoit

[GeorgeKerwood]

Salut!

Thanks for the reply. Great, no particular hurry, my project is concluded for the time being I'd just thought it would make a useful addition.

"The library" in this case was WiFiNina. Unless of course it was just that I couldn't discover how to do so. A further caveat had been that Postman, which I had been using to prepare and test my requests, also does not support http 1.0 so the debugging/testing on the embedded side would of been considerable longer with that limitation.

Your hard work is apricated, Best Regards,
George

[bblanchon]

Hi George,

As far as I can see, WiFiNina only works at TCP/UDP level and doesn't provide any HTTP abstraction.
I don't see how it could force you to use HTTP 1.1.

Best regards,
Benoit

[GeorgeKerwood]

Hi Benoit,

You're right. In my inexperience I misdiagnosed the "http 1.0 isn't working" problem as WiFiNina problem and not an endpoint problem (which I now think it is). I'll take another look to see if I can't remove the need for preloading buffer arrays.

Thanks for the input,

George

[bblanchon]

Hi George,

I never saw a server that refuses to downgrade to HTTP 1.0.
Please let me know if that’s your case.

Best regards,
Benoit