In HTTP Message Transmission
Chunking is a specific feature of the HTTP 1.1 protocol. Here, the meaning is the opposite of that used in psychology and in memory management. It refers to a facility that allows inconveniently large messages to be broken into conveniently-sized smaller "chunks."
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