- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 05:16:37 +0100
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- Cc: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Adrien de Croy wrote: > As part of the general theory that CONNECT or its response message may > contain an entity-body, I did some testing with including a > Content-Length header in the response message. > > This caused a lot of problems for some browsers. > > 1. Goole chrome crashed immediately. > 2. Firefox reported that it was still waiting for transfers to complete > even though everything had been sent through. > 3. IE 7, ok. > > in the case of Chrome and Firefox, the problems went away as soon as the > Content-Length header was removed from the connect response. > > I view this as a bug in FF and Chrome, however it's odd that these > browser at least consider that it's illegal to have an entity body on a > CONNECT reponse, and it makes me therefore highly reluctant to put the > header in. Does that include a "Content-Length: 0"? Not that there's any point in it. -- Jamie
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