- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:02:32 +0200
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2017-09-08 10:49, Danny Ayers wrote: > I recently started getting these when calling a service [1] (actually > reported as "Request Entity Too Large" per RFC2616). > > The description in RFC7231 is: > "The 413 (Payload Too Large) status code indicates that the server is > refusing to process a request because the request payload is larger than > the server is willing or able to process." > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's talking about the size of the > *request* payload, ie. client to server, not *requested* (response) > payload, ie. server back to client. However in my case the error was > actually that the data requested would be larger than the server was > prepared to return. > > Either way, this strikes me an easy source of confusion, I'd suggest an > extra word or two to help avoid this. > > Cheers, > Danny. It does already say "request payload", so what do you want to change? The title of the section? Best regards, Julian
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