- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:36:51 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Adrien de Croy wrote:
> Is it even legal for a CONNECT command to have a body? If it does, what
> should the proxy do? The client (a panasonic blue-ray player) breaks if the
> body is forwarded, however RFC2817 Sec 5.2 last para implies it is legal to
> have a body here.
Sorry, but can you clarify how you would read that paragraph to get that
meaning out of it? (I'm not suggesting you think this, I just don't see how it
can be intrepreted that way.)
Here's that last paragraph of RFC2817 5.2 with my comments:
Like any other pipelined HTTP/1.1 request, data to be tunneled may be
sent immediately after the blank line.
This seems to be like it's saying that everything after the blank line is
tunneled. And it also mentions pipelining (in a funny way if you ask me),
which only works for requests with no request-bodies.
The usual caveats also apply: data may be discarded if the eventual
response is negative, and the connection may be reset with no response if
more than one TCP segment is outstanding.
Is it that "data may be discarded" part? It's not clear to me what data this
refers to.
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