- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:18:56 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
* Julian Reschke wrote: >over on stackoverflow.com, somebody asked for the right status code to >return when the request has a TE: header with an unknown transfer coding (It would be better to abbreviate Transfer-Encoding with T-E, not TE.) >The answer is not obvious; is this a client or a server error? Should >the specification say something about this? Section 3.6 of RFC 2616: A server which receives an entity-body with a transfer-coding it does not understand SHOULD return 501 (Unimplemented), and close the connection. So it does address this already. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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