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

"Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com> Thu, 25 July 2013 17:40 UTC

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

....Roy


On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23.html#status.205>:
> 
> "Since the 205 status code implies that no additional content will be provided in the payload, the server MUST send a message body of zero length. In other words, the server MUST send a "Content-Length: 0" field in a 205 response or close the connection immediately after sending the blank line terminating the header section."
> 
> So would using Chunked Encoding be illegal? I don't think that was the intent.
> 
> The simplest possible fix seems to drop the second sentence.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
> Origin: user npcode in <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17826572/which-http-and-webdav-status-must-not-include-message-body/17827503?noredirect=1#comment26054009_17827503>
>

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