Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23, "6.3.6 205 Reset Content"

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 25 July 2013 17:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23, "6.3.6 205 Reset Content"
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On 2013-07-25 19:39, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> Yes, that was the intent. More specifically, generating chunked when there is no need to do so was considered far less interoperable than simply requiring C-L. We were able to make this a requirement because 205 was defined by the WG before any deployment.
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> ....Roy
> ...

Well, RFC 2616 was kind of silent (if not wrong) about it.

I really wonder whether we need to rule out a silly edge case using a 
MUST. *If* we do, we really should be clear about the implication on 
Chunked Encoding...

Best regards, Julian