- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:07:29 -0700
- To: Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> On Sep 14, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thank you very much for the clarification. > > So to paraphrase, the general rule for handling request body is > defined in section 3.3.3 of RFC 7230 as: > > 6. If this is a request message and none of the above are true, then > the message body length is zero (no message body is present). > > which means that in HTTP, there is no distinction between a request > with zero-length body and a request _without_ a body. > > That means it is completely up to the HTTP client to whether or not to > send `content-length: 0` for such requests, though each implementation > may decide to send or not, depending on interoperability issues that > might exist. Yes, there is no semantic distinction. ....Roy
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