- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:51:21 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
>RFC 2616 does not state whether a status code of 305 should include >an entity or not. > >I am assuming that it SHOULD include an entity just like the other >3xx status codes except 304. > >Is this a correct assumption? The spec is silent on the issue of sending entity bodies with a 305. I don't recall whether it is silent on purpose -- probably not. Whether your assumption above is correct depends a bit on whether you are writing client or server software. 1) if you are writing a client that gets 305 responses, you cannot assume anything about an entity body being present, so you must be prepared to handle either case. 2) if you are writing a server that sends 305 responses, the most sensible thing to do, in my opinion, is to include a short HTML entity body with human-readable instructions about using a proxy. Koen.
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