- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:59:16 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:52:15PM +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Willy Tarreau wrote: > >I'm realizing that this is very similar to the chunked-encoding with > >content-length. I wonder whether we have numbers on the cases where > >this still happens, because the risks of bad handling are exactly the > >same, even though the spec says that chunking must be assumed in this > >case. It would be nice if numbers showed that we could simply consider > >that situation as an error. > > In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2010JulSep/0375.html > this did not happen at all. Like I said there, the interaction between > user-written code and web server infrastructure has been improved a lot > in the past couple of years, eliminating many of the problem sources. Thanks Björn, I missed that previous mail of yours. That fuels the idea that we might now make chunk+content-length invalid. Regards, Willy
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