1 // Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 // Package httputil provides HTTP utility functions, complementing the 6 // more common ones in the net/http package. 7 package httputil 8 9 import ( 10 "io" 11 "net/http/internal" 12 ) 13 14 // NewChunkedReader returns a new chunkedReader that translates the data read from r 15 // out of HTTP "chunked" format before returning it. 16 // The chunkedReader returns io.EOF when the final 0-length chunk is read. 17 // 18 // NewChunkedReader is not needed by normal applications. The http package 19 // automatically decodes chunking when reading response bodies. 20 func NewChunkedReader(r io.Reader) io.Reader { 21 return internal.NewChunkedReader(r) 22 } 23 24 // NewChunkedWriter returns a new chunkedWriter that translates writes into HTTP 25 // "chunked" format before writing them to w. Closing the returned chunkedWriter 26 // sends the final 0-length chunk that marks the end of the stream. 27 // 28 // NewChunkedWriter is not needed by normal applications. The http 29 // package adds chunking automatically if handlers don't set a 30 // Content-Length header. Using NewChunkedWriter inside a handler 31 // would result in double chunking or chunking with a Content-Length 32 // length, both of which are wrong. 33 func NewChunkedWriter(w io.Writer) io.WriteCloser { 34 return internal.NewChunkedWriter(w) 35 } 36 37 // ErrLineTooLong is returned when reading malformed chunked data 38 // with lines that are too long. 39 var ErrLineTooLong = internal.ErrLineTooLong 40