- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:23:53 PST
- To: Carl Kugler <kugler@us.ibm.com>, CGI-WG@golux.com, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, ipp@pwg.org
> Many http server implementors seem to have interpreted the combination > of these requirements to imply that a POST request without a > Content-Length HTTP header cannot have a message-body. This implication might have held for HTTP/1.0, but is wrong for HTTP/1.1. > Indeed, I have tried several commercial web servers and > in all cases, a servlet or CGI program gets end-of-file as soon as it > tries to read the message-body input stream for a POST request with > chunked transfer-coding. Did these servers purport to support HTTP/1.1 for CGI scripts? http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Forum/Reports/ is a survey of implementations, but we didn't ask implementations to distinguish whether they supported 'chunked' transfer encoding specifically. In any case, you left out the most obvious solution: don't use 'CGI' to implement IPP. However, it would be useful to update CGI for HTTP/1.1. Larry
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