- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:50:18 +1000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Are you saying that "ignore" might encompass things like parsing for message delimitation, etc., thereby spoiling the connection, effectively? Do you have a suggestion? Is it as easy as changing it to "ignore the contents of the message-body..." in both instances? Cheers, On 15/05/2007, at 7:24 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Mark Nottingham wrote: >> ... >> * Replacing the last sentence with: [[[ When a request message >> contains both a message-body of non-zero length and a method that >> does not define any semantics for that request message-body, then >> an origin server SHOULD either ignore the message-body or respond >> with an appropriate error message (e.g., 413). A proxy or >> gateway, when presented the same request, SHOULD either forward >> the request inbound with the message-body or ignore the message- >> body when determining a response. ]]], as per [2] >> 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/64972E13-483B-4F69-94FD- >> F2EE516286A8@mnot.net >> 2. http://www.w3.org/mid/9C43F5AB-C3D7-4584-8F12- >> A9F459D3817F@gbiv.com > > ... > > I think "SHOULD ... ignore" could be misread as "treat as if not > there". But what we want is that the body *is* consumed, but then > the contents is ignored, right? > > Best regards, Julian > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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