TE
| TE |
The poorly named TE header functions like the Accept-Encoding header, but for transfer encodings (it could have been named Accept-Transfer-Encoding, but it wasn't). The TE header also can be used to indicate whether a client can handle headers in the trailer of a response that has been through the chunked encoding. See Chapter 15 for more on the TE header, chunked encoding, and trailers.
Type
Request header
Notes
If the value is empty, only the chunked transfer encoding is acceptable. The special token "trailers" indicates that trailer headers are acceptable in a chunked response.
Basic Syntax
TE: # (transfer-codings)
transfer-codings= "trailers" | (transfer-extension [accept-params])
Examples
TE:
TE: chunked