- From: Kyle Dent <kdent@seaglass.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:51:17 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- CC: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, kugler@us.ibm.com, "Yaron Goland (Exchange)" <yarong@exchange.microsoft.com>, http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
"Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > > >We might make replying '411 and connection close' to a chunked encoding > >'conditionally compliant' rather than 'compliant' because otherwise, > >as has been pointed out, there are inteorperability problems. > > There is no interoperability problem here. The server response is > understandable by the client. Any server has the right to deny > service rather than buffer an unknown amount of data. No change is > needed to the spec. > > ....Roy Quite right. Also, the fact that an implementation or product is compliant does not automatically mean that it is a good or even a fully featured implementation. Kyle Dent <kdent@seaglass.com> http://www.seaglass.com
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