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Chunked encoding isn't handled for file streaming
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Component: Transports
Focus: File handling
Status: triage
Type: bug
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 3.6k
- Forks
- 500
- Avg merge
- 2d 21h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 5
Description
Accidentally introduced in #188, but that only exposed the underlying issue, as it switched fsockopen to HTTP/1.1.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing file streaming through the fsockopen HTTP/1.1 path and review issue #188, which introduced the exposure. Reproduce a response using chunked encoding and verify that streamed files are handled correctly without relying on an unchunked response.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100