"205" status code

From: Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:41:47 +0100 To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org Message-ID: <20040919084147.GA30149@manyfish.co.uk> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Friday, 27 April 2012 06:49:35 GMT

The section on the 205 status code text includes the text:

    "The response MUST NOT include an entity"

The Apache httpd proxy code treats 205 like 204 or 304: implicitly no
message body, regardless of any Content-Length/Transfer-Encoding headers
sent. 

It wasn't entirely clear whether this was correct from 2616: neither
section 4.3 or 4.4 mentions 205 alongside 1xx, 204 and 304 as responses.
Can anyone clarify?

joe