Re: Worries about content-length

From: Paul Hoffman <ietf-lists@proper.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 08:50:53 -0700 Message-Id: <v02120c02abd3ecf2266a@[165.227.40.22]> To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thursday, 2 February 2023 18:42:55 UTC

I agree with Harald that such a comment in the HTTP/1.0 spec is a good idea
and will alert people to a potential problem. I hope that the better Web
servers implement it. I don't see it as conflicting with current practice.

I think Larry's suggestion is excellent and should definitely be considered
for HTTP/1.1. It is not hard for us to specify, not hard for HTTP server
writers to implement, and not hard for Web client writers to implement or
simply ignore.