HTTP servers, such as Go's, handle Content-Length via chunked transfer encoding when responses exceed buffer size, using hexadecimal to indicate chunks, enabling efficient data transfer without storing entire responses in memory—a clever mechanism prevalent since HTTP 1.1 and replaced by streaming in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, though trailers allow post-body headers like digital signatures.
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