On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com> wrote: > Specifically, I'm thinking that the last paragraph really should read > something more like.. > > Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a > Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. > Processing of the entity-body SHOULD be based on the Content-Type > header field value and MAY be based as well on other header field > values. That text isn't specifying a protocol, it's specifying how implementations should behave. We need the protocol specification to specify what messages *mean* when the Content-Type header is there and when it isn't, and we already have that text. My previous suggestion is as far as I would feel comfortable going along these lines; http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2009AprJun/0018.html Mark.Received on Wednesday, 8 April 2009 00:26:27 UTC
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