- From: Travis Snoozy (Volt) <a-travis@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:32:07 -0800
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- CC: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Jamie Lokier said: <snip> > But, > > > it's realistic to expect implementations to check (and fail > > gracefully) when any received protocol value exceeds its > > representation capacity. > > on that I wholeheartedly agree. It's not hard; there's no good > excuse. I'm astonished and disappointed that Microsoft screwed that up. > For the record, neither IE7/XP SP2 nor IIS 5.1 "screwed up" (except for the HEAD request in the latter case). Both failed "gracefully," just like you want them to. (I can't vouch for versions <7 or OSs other than XP SP2, since I don't have any other configurations available to test on. David Morris reports that IE6 [on an unspecified OS] gives an erroneous success message. Try it at home and see!) (Note that "standalone" versions of the IE browsers may not give accurate results; for me, standalone IE6 fails exactly the same way the installed IE7 fails.) Thanks, -- Travis
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