Re: WGLC issue: ambiguity in part 1 example

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 18 February 2013 00:14 UTC

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Thanks, Amos; I've created an editorial ticket - 
  http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/433

Cheers,


On 17/02/2013, at 12:27 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> Part 1 section 2.1 example server response contains an entity body and a Content-Length header.
> 
> The Content-Length header is 2 bytes larger than the visible/printable bytes in the entity and it is not made clear that there are invisible trailer bytes being included in the in the displayed entity size.
> 
> I think at this early stage of the texts it would be best to keep things simple and only have the Content-Length equal to the visible bytes - "Hello world!" being 12 bytes long.
> 
> Amos
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