server sometimes returns chunked transfer encoding

Question

I\'m building a REST API.. Sometimes the server returns the response with chunked transfer encoding? Why is that?!

Why can\'t the server always return the response in

Answer 1

A problem may be that Apache is gzipping your download, taking care of correcting the Content-Length, or in your case, adding the header

Content-Encoding: chunked

You can add a .htaccess RewriteRule to disable gzip:

RewriteRule . - [E=no-gzip:1]