- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:12:48 -0700
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> I believe NULL-Request was added to handle the lingering CRLF following > a POSTed entity body. It may have an unexpected and unintended > interaction with persistent connections: because the NULL-Request has > no HTTP-Version and no Connection header, the server is obliged to > close the connection after servicing the NULL-Request. Well, Dave, I must say that you have a perverse way of reading specs that discovers problems I would never even dream of. ;-) I've noticed that some implementers manage to derive similar interpretations, so I'm glad you find them first. Any thoughts as to what/where words need to be added to prevent this unfortunate event? .......Roy
Received on Tuesday, 23 April 1996 17:30:03 UTC