- From: Kevin Kenny <kennykb@cobweb.crd.ge.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 96 21:39:48 -0500
- To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Cc: sacha@clip.dia.fi.upm.es (Sacha), www-lib@w3.org
Sacha writes:
> I have a question regarding content length. Sometimes when
> I just fetch the header of a document I get a content length
> of -1 (i.e. unset), but if I get the entire document I get
> the correct content length. Can it be that the server creates
> different headers depending on whether you also ask for the
> document? Does this mean that the only way to get the content
> length with absolute certainty is to request the whole document?
There's a bug in NCSA HTTPd 1.5 and 1.5.1 where CGI script output
always shows a content length of -1. Could this be your problem?
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Received on Wednesday, 26 June 1996 17:40:55 UTC