NetScaler HTTP 1.1 chunking is invalid
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Description
NS is changing the chunk data and values presented by backend server and is sharing the same with client for front end, due to which
Resolution
fix in 700136 which will be in 11.1.59.x and onwards
Problem Cause
NS is changing the chunk data and values received by backend server and due to this changed chunked data to front end client fails
When NS is sending a chunk size of smaller values like 74 octets the hexadecimal value does not cover all four octets and the remaining octets are covered with blank space followed by a CRLF and in hexadecimal blank space is represented as 20 and CRLF as 0d 0ad.
Because of this representation(where in an octet is represented by an empty space(20) before being followed by a CRLF(0d 0a).) the client is not able to handle the response and is throwing the error
Issue/Introduction
NetScaler fails to handle http data chunking
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