#491, was: draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23, "6.3.6 205 Reset Content" from Julian Reschke on 2013-07-25 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:30:05 +0200
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <51F0FE2D.8000601@gmx.de>

On 2013-07-25 08:29, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> "Since the 205 status code implies that no additional content will be
> provided in the payload, the server MUST send a message body of zero
> length. In other words, the server MUST send a "Content-Length: 0" field
> in a 205 response or close the connection immediately after sending the
> blank line terminating the header section."
>
> So would using Chunked Encoding be illegal? I don't think that was the
> intent.
>
> The simplest possible fix seems to drop the second sentence.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
> Origin: user npcode in
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17826572/which-http-and-webdav-status-must-not-include-message-body/17827503?noredirect=1#comment26054009_17827503>

Now <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/491>.

Received on Thursday, 25 July 2013 10:30:52 UTC