Re: What is Content-Length?

• From: David W. Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
• Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 16:08:03 -0800 (PST)
• To: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
• Cc: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
• Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971212160645.28882H-100000@shell1.aimnet.com>

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, John Franks wrote:

> What I would most like to see is the assertion that if a Content-length
> header is present its value is the length of the entity-body.  It

After removing all transfer encodings. Then there would seem to be
no conflict between Content-length and transfer-encoding of any form.
Another simplification.

Dave Morris

Received on Friday, 12 December 1997 16:16:33 UTC