RE: POST

RFC mentions that Origin servers *MAY* send 100 continue if expect header is
not sent from client. When is the data sent if there is no expect header in
use

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Lawrence [mailto:scott-http@skrb.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:51 PM
To: Vijayabhaskar_Mamidi
Cc: 'ietf-http-wg@w3.org'
Subject: Re: POST


Vijayabhaskar_Mamidi <Vijayabhaskar_Mamidi@Satyam.com> writes:

> 	when is the data sent in a post request .Does the client send the
> data at the initiating request ort does it wait for some sort of
> conformation from the server( No Expect headers are being used).

HTTP/1.1 allows for the use of a 100 Continue response to signal
readiness from the server:

  http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.html#sec-8.2.3

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Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2003 08:27:37 UTC