Chunked Transfer Encoding

Handle Transfer-Encoding: chunked responses where Content-Length is not known in advance.

EXPERT

🔗 Endpoint

GET /api/v1/files/download?format=streamOpen in browser ↗

💡 Tips

✓Chunked responses have no Content-Length
✓Each chunk starts with size in hex
✓Final chunk has size 0
✓Use streaming APIs to process chunks

💻 Code Example

// Playwright: Handle chunked transfer
const response = await request.get('/api/v1/files/download?format=stream');

// Note: Content-Length may be absent for chunked encoding
expect(response.headers()['transfer-encoding']).toBe('chunked');

// Collect all chunks
const chunks: string[] = [];
const body = await response.text();

// Body contains all chunks concatenated
const lines = body.trim().split('\n');
expect(lines.length).toBe(10); // 10 chunks

lines.forEach((line, i) => {
  expect(line).toContain(`Chunk ${i + 1}`);
});

🖥️ curl Command

curl -O "https://api.qa-practice.dev/api/v1/files/download?format=stream"