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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:02:26 +0100
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>>conventions for truncation are well defined, easily observed, and

unfortunately, it is not in fact guaranteed in practice that the http message will have
a header that includes a byte count (at all) or an accurate one (if that).
hence some of the heuristics.