It has a meaning while parsing a body when using chunked encoding.
This must be backported to 1.5 since it caused a bug there as well.
* - next (parse pointer) : next relative byte to be parsed. Always points
* to a byte matching the current state.
*
- * - sol (start of line) : start of current line before MSG_BODY, or zero.
+ * - sol (start of line) : start of current line before MSG_BODY. Starting
+ * from MSG_BODY, contains the length of the last
+ * parsed chunk size so that when added to sov it
+ * always points to the beginning of the current
+ * data chunk.
*
* - eol (End of Line) : Before HTTP_MSG_BODY, relative offset in the
* buffer of the first byte which marks the end of