Re: [#95] Multiple Content-Lengths

FWIW, I used this:
  http://gist.github.com/580078


On 22/09/2010, at 10:19 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 21.09.2010 07:37, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:28 PM, William Chan (陈智昌) wrote:
>> 
>>> From the brief discussion amongst the Chrome network developers, we plan to discard the response and display an error.
>> 
>> Thank you.  That is a very sensible solution and I am more
>> than happy to spec it that way if we can get rough consensus
>> (and hopefully some running code).
> 
> I just did a few tests with current versions IE/FF/Op/Saf/Chrome.
> 
> Observations:
> 
> 1) some pick the first Content-Length header (Op/Chr/Saf/IE), FF picks the second
> 
> 2) some close the connection (Op/IE), some do not
> 
> 3) most parse multiple lenghts in a single header just like multiple headers, except for FF which then ignores the header and reads until EOF
> 
> 4) all are ok with multiple header instances having the same value
> 
> I think this is good news in that there's no interop for broken messages, thus whatever we decide to do is unlikely to break existing content.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 22 September 2010 13:13:57 UTC