Currently in a HttpMessage, binary data can only be transferred as multipart, which uses base64 encoding (requiring extra runtime).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding
With chunked transfer encoding binary data can be transported directly in chunks, even when the final size of the data is not yet known. The connection can stay open, and several chunks of data can be sent indefinitely until a chunk with size 0 indicated the end of the stream.
Currently in a HttpMessage, binary data can only be transferred as multipart, which uses base64 encoding (requiring extra runtime).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding
With chunked transfer encoding binary data can be transported directly in chunks, even when the final size of the data is not yet known. The connection can stay open, and several chunks of data can be sent indefinitely until a chunk with size 0 indicated the end of the stream.