I use a restful WCF, and i call a method which has got a stream return type and this is the Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:25:29 GMT
6
1;1;
0
I would like to disable the
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Because it write some plus information what i don't need (6 and 0 in the body)
How can i do it?
When you create a WCF endpoint you need to specify what transfer mode (TransferMode) you are using.
StreamedResponse, Transfer-Encoding: chunked will be added automatically to the response headers, Content-Length will be automatically omitted and there is nothing you can do about that, even if you set the Content-Length explicitly. It is EITHER Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding, they replace each other depending on transfer mode, read this (the first paragraph).Buffered, Transfer-Encoding: chunked will be not be added automatically, which will allow Content-Length to be included, if you specify it.So create your endpoint like this:
WebHttpBinding wb = new WebHttpBinding(WebHttpSecurityMode.Transport);
wb.TransferMode = TransferMode.Buffered; // TransferMode.StreamedResponse;
ServiceEndpoint endpoint = host.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(myService.IBlah), blah, "");
I had this problem when I was streaming an MP3 audio from a WCF WebGet and I couldn't see Content-Length. Once your endpoint is configured with Buffered transfer mode, you will start seeing Content-Length.
For me this was only half the battle. In order to properly play MP3 on Chrome, I had to also add Accept-Ranges: bytes to the response headers so that the audio was seekable on Chrome.
