Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7230 (4281)

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Fri, 27 February 2015 07:16 UTC

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:12:27 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>, "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>, barryleiba@computer.org, presnick@qti.qualcomm.com, demianbrecht@gmail.com, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 04:36:16PM +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> I think Roy wrote this text, but from my standpoint, it's REJECT --
> Content-Length defines message length under these conditions no matter what
> the UA should or should not do.

Agreed. The proposal makes the text confusing while the original text
makes it quite clear how a message body's size is determined.

Willy