Re: A question about Content-Length header

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:08:13 +0100
• To: ? <cnmjbm@gmail.com>
• CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4978458D.6000408@gmx.de>

Hi "?",

? wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> As I understand, Content-Length header is not mandatory with HTTP 1.1.
> 
> My question is: when a HTTP message has message body (eg. a SOAP envelope)
> but does not send Content-Length header,is it a MUST (semantics as by RFC
> 2119) for the message body to be "chunked" transfer-coded as defined in Sec
> 3.6.1 of RFC 2616 or be transfer-coded in other scheme?
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Peter

I believe this is answered
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.4.4>, which
enumerates the different ways to determine the message length.

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 22 January 2009 10:08:54 UTC