Re: P1: Content-Length SHOULD be sent

No, that was a direct message to you, written by me (the WG chair).


On 07/12/2012, at 11:36 AM, Jonathan Ballard <dzonatas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark, that looked like your auto-responder, if I didn't remove you from reply-list. It seemed out of order to this public resolution.
> 
> On Thursday, December 6, 2012, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Jonathan / Dzontatas,
> 
> Your contributions to this discussion are (yet again) disruptive.
> 
> As such, this is a public warning, as per BCP94. If you continue to disrupt the work, your posting privileges will again be suspended.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> On 07/12/2012, at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Ballard <dzonatas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe media suffixes SHOULD be allowed on Content-Length: without type.
> >
> > Content-Length: 1234+ic
> >
> > Multiplication of values are symmetric to octets with such suffix. That would require no random order on Content-Type:.
> >
> > Solved?
> >
> > On Tuesday, December 4, 2012, Willy Tarreau 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
> >
> >
> 
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