Re: CONNECT command with message body

Adrien de Croy wrote:
> If no Content-Length field is present, and no Transfer-Encoding 
> specified, then presumably for any request there will be no entity, 
> since the client would need to disconnect to signal the end of the 
> entity body.

Disconnecting to signal the end of the body is only allowed for
responses.  For requests, it would need to be a TCP half-close and
that is not mentioned at all in HTTP, and probably not supported by
most/all servers.

-- Jamie

Received on Monday, 18 May 2009 04:18:16 UTC