According to some aspects, a transport accelerator of a client device may generate a chunk request that is derived from a fragment request and that has transport acceleration metadata. The transport acceleration metadata may indicate that the request is from a transport accelerator and/or indicate a fragment associated with the fragment request. The transport accelerator may receive a signal to cancel one or more chunk requests and/or wait to receive a full fragment. A client application of the client device may generate the signal upon receipt of an HTTP response from a server that complies with a handshaking procedure.