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		stephank on March 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Node.js streams are awesome I wonder if this would actually be useful to support in HTTP? (An `Estimated-Content-Length` header or similar, only valid with `Connection: close`.)

FooBarWidget on March 25, 2012 [–]

It would be better to include progress estimation information as a chunked encoding extension. This allows much better progress reporting.

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