- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:52:34 +0000
- To: "Travis Snoozy (Volt)" <a-travis@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Travis Snoozy (Volt) wrote: > > 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. Putting the wrong number in a HEAD response is still screwing up, > (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!) In this thread David Morris reports that IE6 downloads the wrong number of bytes in addition to declaring it a success. I call that screwing up majorly. (Also it seems likely it would get the message boundary of the next persistent response wrong, as a consequence): David Morris: > IE6 is totally confused and ends up downloaning 451,140 bytes and > declares success ... -- Jamie
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