Re: NEW ISSUE: Content-* headers vs PUT

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i79


On 26/07/2007, at 3:35 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> the description of PUT states (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/ 
> rfc2616.html#rfc.section.9.6.p.1>):
>
> "The recipient of the entity MUST NOT ignore any Content-* (e.g.  
> Content-Range) headers that it does not understand or implement and  
> MUST return a 501 (Not Implemented) response in such cases."
>
> It's not clear to me what Content-* headers are? All headers  
> starting with the character sequence "Content-"? Just those defined  
> in RFC2616?
>
> Furthermore, that language sounds as if a server that ignores  
> Content-Language (as opposed to storing it with the entity) MUST  
> reject PUT requests that come with a Content-Language header. Is  
> this really intended? Does anybody implement that?
>
> Best regards, Julian
>


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