#491, was: draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23, "6.3.6 205 Reset Content"

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 25 July 2013 10:32 UTC

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Subject: #491, was: draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23, "6.3.6 205 Reset Content"
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On 2013-07-25 08:29, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> "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>

Now <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/491>.