- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:47:32 +1100
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: "Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Trying to wrap this discussion up -- Roy has made a proposed edit here: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/2034#file1 Please have a look and speak up if you can't live with that approach. Regards, On 05/12/2012, at 5:48 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > Hi Adrien, > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 12:19:33AM +0000, Adrien W. de Croy wrote: >>>> Is it really useful to distinguish between no body and body with no >>>> content? I can't imagine a use for such a distinction. >>>> >>> >>> >>> I think the example with the POST that is rejected without a content-length >>> is valid, I have already observed this one, though I don't remember on >>> what server. >>> >> maybe that's a bug in that server? > > not necessarily, don't forget that we're both reading this with our > intermediary author hat on, and we're mostly interested in getting > messaging right. But for application servers, some subtilities may > very well make a difference. Especially considering what was said in > 2616 about how to detect presence of a message body and the requirement > for POST requests to carry a message body. > > Willy > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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