Enable Chunked Transfer Encoding in ASP.NET

Question

I have an ASP.NET 3.5 website residing on IIS7. I am using dynamic compression and wanted to see if I can enable chunked encoding. Is there some setting on IIS or web config that enables it?

Unguinous

possible duplicate of How can I set Transfer-Encoding to chunked, explicitly or implicitly, in an ASP.NET response? – Attrahent

Answer 1

In my experience, calling Response.Flush() will set the Transfer-Encoding to chunked. And actually I think setting Response.BufferedOutput will set it to chunked everytime Response.OutputStream is flushed.

That is unless a Content-Length has been set, then it just flushes the output without setting chunked.

Playpen

I was having a different issue, but your answer pointed me in the right direction. Thx. – Pentarchy

This is not true. Calling Response.Flush() does not add the 'Transfer-Encoding' to the response headers. At least not in all asp.net versions, which version are you using ? – Frantz

Answer 2

If you edit the IIS configuration you can set the <asp enableChunkedEncoding /> element / attribute to set this.

Temple

where that section is? – Cologarithm