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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:30:36+00:00

Preliminary: I am writting my own httpclient in Java. I am trying to parse

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Preliminary: I am writting my own httpclient in Java. I am trying to parse out the contents of chunked encoding.

Here is my dilema: Since I am trying to parse out chunked http transfer encoding with a gzip payload there is a mix of ascii and binary. I can’t just take the http resp content and convert it to a string and make use of StringUtils since the binary data can easily contain nil characters. So what I need to do is some basic things for parsing out each chunk and its chunk length (as per chunked transfer/HTTP/1.1 spec).

Are there any helpful ways of searching through byte arrays of binary/part ascii data for certain patterns (like a CR LF) (instead of just a single byte) ? Or must I write the for loops for this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thus, you basically need a ChunkedInputStream. Google gives enough hints. Apache HttpCore’s variant is pretty concise. I’d suggest you to just use it rather than reinventing your own client.

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