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title: Transfer-Encoding
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/http/http-headers/Transfer-Encoding
---

The `Transfer-Encoding` header field lists the transfer coding names corresponding to the sequence of transfer codings that have been (or will be) applied to the payload body in order to form the message body. Transfer codings are defined in [Section 4 of RFC 7230](https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7230.html#transfer.codings).