IE5 bug, was... RE: MKCOL with entity request body

• From: <ccjason@us.ibm.com>
• Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:19:14 -0400
• To: ejw@ics.uci.edu
• cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
• Message-ID: <8525677B.008013F9.00@D51MTA07.pok.ibm.com>

> The entire intent of this requirement was extensibility.  We wanted to
> ensure that implementors wouldn't add code that rejected a MKCOL immediately
> if it had a request body, since this would make future extension of MKCOL
> impossible.

In that case IE5 needs to fix this. :-)  IE5 closes the connection before even
reading the body.  It apparently is not prepared to accept a multi-status
response.

Received on Monday, 24 May 1999 19:19:12 UTC