"Yef" <e97y@yahoo.com> said:
>Recently, I fetched a page from a server, its info is:
....
>Within the HTML response I found numerous lines that had only
>3 characters each, always 0..9 and a..f i.e. hexadecimal.

It looks like you've seen "chunked content transfer encoding";
see RFC 2616, chapter 3.6.1.
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