Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7230 (4281)

Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> Wed, 04 March 2015 19:15 UTC

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> On Feb 26, 2015, at 9:36 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> 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.

My interpretation is that this alludes that it is valid for a user agent to specify a the size of a representation of a resource even though in practice, such  information resides solely with and is sent in outbound messages from the origin server. I’m looking to simply remove the need for interpretation (albeit minor as the following paragraph /does/ clarify) for future readers.