Re: NEW ISSUE: Transfer-Encoding in 1.0 messages

* Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>Who is sending transfer-encoding in HTTP/1.0 messages? Have never seen
>that, and quite outside specifications.
>
>I have seen transfer-encoding in response to HTTP/1.0 requests however,
>even if that is a MUST NOT..

I do not know any current setup that would cause this, and that browsers
do not agree how to handle this is a good hint that there are none. What
I can easily imagine though is that in ancient times broken servers with
broken proxies would cause this, and that exploits might try to use this
to bypass crude security measures.
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Received on Friday, 23 November 2007 10:20:23 UTC