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Re: Distinguishing 0-byte request body in HTTP/2

"Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com> Thu, 15 September 2016 20:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: Distinguishing 0-byte request body in HTTP/2
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> On Sep 14, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you very much for the clarification.
> 
> So to paraphrase, the general rule for handling request body is
> defined in section 3.3.3 of RFC 7230 as:
> 
>   6.  If this is a request message and none of the above are true, then
>       the message body length is zero (no message body is present).
> 
> which means that in HTTP, there is no distinction between a request
> with zero-length body and a request _without_ a body.
> 
> That means it is completely up to the HTTP client to whether or not to
> send `content-length: 0` for such requests, though each implementation
> may decide to send or not, depending on interoperability issues that
> might exist.

Yes, there is no semantic distinction.

....Roy

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