Re: Correct status code for unknown transfer-encoding

* Julian Reschke wrote:
>over on stackoverflow.com, somebody asked for the right status code to 
>return when the request has a TE: header with an unknown transfer coding 

(It would be better to abbreviate Transfer-Encoding with T-E, not TE.)

>The answer is not obvious; is this a client or a server error? Should 
>the specification say something about this?

Section 3.6 of RFC 2616:

  A server which receives an entity-body with a transfer-coding it does
  not understand SHOULD return 501 (Unimplemented), and close the
  connection.

So it does address this already.
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