- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:21:25 +1100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Currently, p1 says: > When a message is allowed to contain a message body, does not have a Transfer-Encoding header field, and has a payload body length that is known to the sender before the message header section has been sent, the sender should send a Content-Length header field to indicate the length of the payload body as a decimal number of octets. This unqualified SHOULD leads people to convoluted readings of the spec where Content-Length is required to be sent on a GET request: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/223#issuecomment-10745532 Proposal: > When a message is allowed to contain a body, does not have a Transfer-Encoding header field, and has a payload body length that is known to the sender before the message header section has been sent, the sender should send a Content-Length header field to indicate the length of the payload body as a decimal number of octets, unless the message is a request and the payload length is zero (in which case the Content-Length header MAY be sent). -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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