- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:07:13 +1100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
2616 defined a chunk as: > chunk = chunk-size [ chunk-extension ] CRLF > chunk-data CRLF Keeping in mind that it had implied whitespace, we changed to: > chunk = chunk-size *WSP [ chunk-ext ] CRLF > chunk-data CRLF In both cases, the entire body of a chunked message is defined as: > Chunked-Body = *chunk > last-chunk > trailer-part > CRLF Now, it's sensible that there isn't any whitespace allowed between the CRLFs and chunk-data, since it's counted. However, I'm seeing responses in the wild (through redbot) where there is OWS (e.g., an extra line) between the CLRF of one chunk and the chunk-size of the next. Most of them seem to be caused by one Web server; AFAICT all common clients recover from this. Should chunk really be: > chunk = OWS chunk-size *WSP [ chunk-ext ] CRLF > chunk-data CRLF (with a corresponding change in last-chunk) ? -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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