- From: Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:44:30 +0100
- To: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:55:23AM -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Joe Orton wrote: ... > > Mozilla seems to opt for the latter; as far as I could work out from > > 2616 the former is correct - a request may or may not include a message > > body... the presence of a message body is signalled by a > > Transfer-Encoding or Content-Length header (or implicit for HEAD, 204, > > 304 etc)... so no T-E or C-L implies no message body. > > Not sure what you are saying here, but no T-E or C-L does not imply no > message body. The above headers are from a response, not from a > request. Ah, yes: I missed that the sentence talking about messages with no bodies was specific to requests. That all makes perfect sense now - thanks. joe
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