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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 25 July 2013 06:31 UTC

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Subject: draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23, "6.3.6 205 Reset Content"
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<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>