- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:53:36 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
* Julian Reschke wrote: >"The recipient of the entity MUST NOT ignore any Content-* (e.g. >Content-Range) headers that it does not understand or implement and MUST >return a 501 (Not Implemented) response in such cases." > >It's not clear to me what Content-* headers are? All headers starting >with the character sequence "Content-"? Just those defined in RFC2616? > >Furthermore, that language sounds as if a server that ignores >Content-Language (as opposed to storing it with the entity) MUST reject >PUT requests that come with a Content-Language header. Is this really >intended? Does anybody implement that? I do not think it sounds like that, and don't think it's unclear which headers are Content-* headers. If you understand or implement Content- Language, you may "ignore" it as far as the requirement goes, and there seem to be other valid forms of not ignoring a header. I would read this as "reject content you don't understand"; if you don't do content-range or content-encoding, that does indeed seem the only sensible course of action. Less so for Content-Script-Type or Content-MD5. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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