Re: Proposal: 205 Bodies [#88]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:45:05AM +1300, Adrien de Croy wrote:
> If you allow bodies on a method, then Content-Length is required.  I 
> don't see any Content-Length headers on CONNECT messages, so current 
> browsers would become incompatible.

I have seen one implementation systematically add "Content-Length: 0"
to CONNECT responses. I believe those were NetApp proxies. Anyway, it
just enforces the fact that there is no body.

> Can we allow Transfer-Encoding: chunked on CONNECT?  IMO we can't.

Indeed it would be problematic to have "0\r\n" prepended to data !

Regards,
Willy

Received on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:22:32 UTC