Fabio Alessandrelli 5eabd5e04a [Web] Always return -1 as body length in HTTPClientWeb. ...

Body length cannot be reliably retrieved from the web.
Reading the "content-length" value will return a meaningless value when
the response is compressed, as reading will return uncompressed chunks
in any case, resulting in a mismatch between the detected body size and
the actual size returned by repeatedly calling read_response_body_chunk.

Additionally, while "content-length" is considered a safe CORS header,
"content-encoding" is not, so using the "content-encoding" to decide if
"content-length" is meaningful is not an option either.

We simply must accept the fact that browsers are awful when it comes to
networking APIs.

(cherry picked from commit f4713d235a)

2023-09-20 18:40:36 +02:00

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