- From: Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:33:20 -0700 (PDT)
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Hi all, While testing an HTTP/1.1 proxy server I am working on, I found a page on a major site that returns the following response on a conditional GET: > HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified > Content-type: image/gif > Content-length: 4672 > Expires: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT > Last-modified: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 00:00:00 GMT > The response didn't contain a body, but the presence of a Content-Length threw off the proxy. I'll be fixing that in the name of tolerance in any case. But I was wondering if including a Content-Length on a response that must NOT include a body and which isn't produced by a HEAD request should be considered a bug? That is, should I point out to the site operator that his/her server is generating bad HTTP or is this OK since 304 tells us there won't be a body anyway? Any opinions? === Wham! <wham_bang@yahoo.com> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Received on Monday, 28 June 1999 13:36:57 UTC