- From: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 06:35:49 PDT
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Cc: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Thanks. I think the intent is that MKREF cannot have a message body. --Judy At 05:13 PM 6/25/98 PDT, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >>their original values. The protocol specification will state that MKREF >>MUST have Content-Length = 0, and the server MUST ignore any content sent >>with the request. > >Be careful in stating this requirement. Either the MKREF method is not >allowed to have a message-body (in which case Content-Length and >Transfer-Encoding MUST NOT be given) or you want to preserve that as >a future option (in which case the requirement should be that any >message-body MAY be ignored). There should be no restriction on the value >of Content-Length. > >This is something I fixed in the v11-rev-03 definition of OPTIONS, >since specifying a specific value for Content-Length is both inadequate >and overly specific for saying use of the message-body is not defined. > >....Roy > > Name: Judith A. Slein E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 Fax: (716) 422-2938 MailStop: 105-50C Web Site: http://www.nde.wrc.xerox.com/users/Slein/slein.htm
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