- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:27:22 -0800
- To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Feb 16, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > Part 1 section 2.1 example server response contains an entity body and a Content-Length header. > > The Content-Length header is 2 bytes larger than the visible/printable bytes in the entity and it is not made clear that there are invisible trailer bytes being included in the in the displayed entity size. > > I think at this early stage of the texts it would be best to keep things simple and only have the Content-Length equal to the visible bytes - "Hello world!" being 12 bytes long. Note that the extra two bytes (for CR LF) is intentional and produced automatically by the xslt example body processor. I believe it is useful to show the real protocol and let the reader figure out why all the bytes aren't visible. ....Roy
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