- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:46:38 -0600 (CST)
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Cc: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>, Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>, fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Dave Kristol wrote: > > Notwithstanding John Frank's new message about "What is Content-Length", > I don't want to invoke some kind of apocalyptic revision of the spec. > and what Content-length means. I also don't want an apocalyptic revision. But I honestly read the spec and believed, based on section 7, that the Content-length header should contain the entity length. Clearly others believe that it should contain the message length. The issue hasn't arisen before because in (nearly?) all implementations these two agree in all instances where there is a Content-length header. The distinction will become increasingly important, and indeed is already for the entity-digest in authentication. For interoperability the spec has to be very clear on whether the Content-length header is the length before or after TE is applied. In my view it currently explicitly states contradictory things in sections 7 and 14. John Franks john@math.nwu.edu
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