Re: Suspected ambiguity in H1 around Expect: 100-continue

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 04:25:53PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> I'm a bit surprised.  One can simply replace the Content-Length header
> with Transfer-Encoding chunked and a single chunk.

Yes but since it's not supposed to be supported by HTTP/1.0 servers
nor intermediaries, there used to be a long period of difficulties
when using it on requests, with 1.1 components taking it as-is
and 1.0 compoennts just ignoring it. Note that I'm not saying that
it's not used, but rarely (which is not the same). There are plenty
of very valid use cases for using it of course!

Willy

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