Re: quickie: client force no headers in server response from Grahame Grieve on 2000-02-09 (www-talk@w3.org from January to February 2000)

From: Grahame Grieve <grahame@kestral.com.au>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:46:42 +1100
To: www-talk@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.1.20000210074535.00ddadd0@10.252.1.60>

>Guys, is there anyway I can force the server to not send the HTTP header.
>
>My program simply calls socket() to port 80 of a server.Then write() "GET
><url>", block on read() and pending the server implementation I receive
>the header or not. Is there a way I can force it to simply send the
>entity, so I'm guaranteed to receive the body, no matter what
>implementation server I'm connecting to.

No there is no way. Mainly because it doesn't make sense. The headers are
sent to tell you about the entity. it's not too hard to parse the headers
properly.

Grahame

Received on Wednesday, 9 February 2000 15:53:35 UTC