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Re: IPP> Chunked POST

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:59:21 -0700
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
cc: kugler@us.ibm.com, "Yaron Goland (Exchange)" <yarong@exchange.microsoft.com>, http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-ID: <9908182259.aa14146@paris-relay.ics.uci.edu>
X-Mailing-List: <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com> archive/latest/532 
>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
Received on Wednesday, 18 August 1999 23:09:37 UTC

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