Re: The getcontentlength property

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:49:47 +0200
• To: werner.donne@re.be
• CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
• Message-ID: <467BE18B.9080005@gmx.de>

Werner Donné wrote:
> Yes, the "User-Agent" header was used.
> 
> The problem is when the resource is going to be fetched for the first
> time by the client. It does a PROPFIND for retrieving the contents of
> the parent collection and then a GET. The client I'm trying it with
> doesn't ask for the "getetag" property in the PROPFIND, so whatever
> ETag returns, it can't draw any conclusions from it. It just uses the
> "getcontenttype" property to decide how many bytes to read, even if
> the response stream is chunked.

Well, that's a bug (in the client).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 22 June 2007 14:49:54 UTC