Re: A new suggestion on 100 CONTINUE

>If the POST has no body the headers must contain a "Content-length: 0"
>line, so the server knows (i.e. this is not an implementation problem for
>my suggestion).
>
>This does illustrate my point though.  Isn't it a little bit brain dead
>to *require* a "100 CONTINUE" for a POST with no body?

That is brain dead.  The intended requirement was that it apply to
any request that includes a message body and not be tied to the method
definition at all.  The definition provided in 2068 is wrong.

>Incidentally, when a client waits for and gets a "100 CONTINUE" after
>sending the headers of a bodyless POST, what does it send?

Nothing [and that is explicitly covered in section 10.1.1]

....Roy