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Re: Sections 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 allow bogus Content-Length?

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Tue, 14 February 2017 21:59 UTC

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In message <D956A24E-4533-4EF4-B74F-377063768C48@redhat.com>, "Jason T. Greene" writes:
>On Feb 14, 2017, at 3:15 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> Last year, I think, I have had some dude claim that a "valid value"
>> was a sequence of digits, but that there is no explicit requirement
>> that it match the length of the body of that request.
>> 
>> I told him to get stuffed.
>
>Out of morbid curiosity, what semantics did he expect?

I think it was "It should just work" ?

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