- From: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:26:11 +1200
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- CC: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote: > 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. > > that's the basis I've been operating under. Was just wondering if it were explictly prohibited by the spec or not. Since I didn't want to presume there can be no application where it may be valid to send an entity body in a request and then disconnect (i.e. if not interested in the response). Adrien > -- Jamie > -- Adrien de Croy - WinGate Proxy Server - http://www.wingate.com
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