Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses
Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 22 April 2013 04:11 UTC
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Subject: Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses
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Now: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/452 On 20/04/2013, at 6:41 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > p2 4.3.2 says: > > Aside from the payload header fields (Section 3.3), the server SHOULD send the same header fields in response to a HEAD request as it would have sent if the request had been a GET. > > The payload header fields include Content-Length, which in my testing is pretty common in HEAD responses. Was this an oversight, or intentional? > > (We already have an exception for HEAD responses in p1's message body length algorithm, section 3.3.3). > > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
- p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Mark Nottingham
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Willy Tarreau
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Mark Nottingham
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Willy Tarreau
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Mark Nottingham
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Zhong Yu
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Mark Nottingham
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Mark Nottingham
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Julian Reschke
- Re: p2: Content-Length in HEAD responses Willy Tarreau