- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:31:14 +1000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 02/09/2010, at 4:00 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> >> #95 - Handling multiple Content-Length headers (-11) > > I reported a few cases of duplicated content-lengths I already observed > and the fact that I decided to only allow multiple content-lengths if > they are all exactly the same. How common is this in your experience? > You said that for this specific case this > was probably acceptable. Do you think relaxing the rule for this specific > case merits a a small add-on to the spec or should we simply enfore the > test and wait for code responsible for duplication to get fixed when > facing the errors (after all, since the content-length is not defined as > a comma-separated list, it should never appear more than once, but you > know the difference between what we say and what we observe) ? I think there are two concerns here: 1) making the spec more complex 2) making code implementing the spec more complex Is it going to cause your implementation problems to refuse messages with two matching content-length headers? Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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