Re: Expect header 'understand' vs 'meet'

On 09/09/2011, at 4:00 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> Except for the minor detail that Expect was added after RFC2068, and hence
> anyone implementing to the older RFC (or anyone just failing to implement
> every single aspect of 2616) will not fail as defined.

Right. For (lots) more detail, see Bestevros, et al's work:
  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.4734

I'm all for adding some language that points out further use of Expect as an attractive nuisance. 


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Received on Monday, 12 September 2011 04:52:03 UTC