- From: Rick Troth <TROTH@ua1vm.ua.edu>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 95 13:42:06 CDT
- To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>, Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
>> The problem I am facing is, this header is returned for most kind of
>> objects (image/gif, audio/au etc) but not for text/html. ...
>If this is the case then it is a server bug! The Content-Length header
>should be sent whenever possible in a full response, and it should certainly
>not have anything to do with the media type in which the object is rendered.
NO, it's not as much of a bug as you might at first suspect.
Objects which are text/html should really be converted from LF line
delimiters to CR/LF line delimiters. That takes more work than just a
quick stat(), which is sufficient for image/gif and audio/au (both of
which are sent out as-is in binary). It is unfortunate that a number
of servers are "lazy" and don't "canonicalize" text/html correctly.
>I can imagine that the problems can be due to server side includes in the
>documents or dynamic documents generated by scripts.
Well, yes. That too.
>Henrik Frystyk frystyk@W3.org
>World-Wide Web Consortium, Tel + 1 617 258 8143
>MIT/LCS, NE43-356 Fax + 1 617 258 8682
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge MA 02154, USA
>
>
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Rick Troth <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA
http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/
Received on Monday, 8 May 1995 18:05:23 UTC