- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:40:14 +0100
- To: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- CC: 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Brian Smith wrote: > A server processing a GET or DELETE can ignore all Content-* headers in > the request, because the the request body doesn't have any semantics for > GET and DELETE, and Content-* describe the request's entity. Ah. Was confusing Content-* with Accept-O. Oh well. > POST, PUT, and PATCH cannot ignore Content-* headers in the request > because those Content-* headers are needed to understand the request > body enough to process it--especially Content-Range and > Content-Encoding. Yep. > Another issue is "What does Content-*" mean? Does it mean all headers > prefixed with "Content-", or just those headers prefixed by "Content-" > that are defined in RFC 2616? I have raised that question some time ago in the context of PATCH, and I think the answer was: all matching that pattern. I do agree we should clarify that. (Mark?) BR, Julian
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