Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7230 (4281)

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

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.


> On 27 Feb 2015, at 4:26 pm, RFC Errata System <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7230,
> "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing".
> 
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7230&eid=4281
> 
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> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Demian Brecht <[e-mail]>
> 
> Section: 3.3.2
> 
> Original Text
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> For messages that do not include a payload body, the Content-Length
> indicates the size of the selected representation (Section 3 of
> [RFC7231]).
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> For outbound messages that do not include a payload body, the
> Content-Length indicates the size of the selected representation
> (Section 3 of [RFC7231]).
> 
> Notes
> -----
> Assuming my interpretation is correct, this phrase as-is is a little confusing given the next paragraphs states:
> 
> "A user agent SHOULD NOT send a Content-Length header field when the request message does not contain a payload body and the method semantics do not anticipate such a body."
> 
> The former is ambiguous, the latter explicit.
> 
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> RFC7230 (draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-26)
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> Title               : Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
> Publication Date    : June 2014
> Author(s)           : R. Fielding, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed.
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis
> Area                : Applications
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
> 

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