Re: Length - any takers?
BearHeart / Bill Weinman (bearheart@bearnet.com)
Fri, 02 Feb 1996 12:54:21 -0600
At 10:42 am 2/2/96 -0800, Paul Hoffman spake:
>As to Larry's suggestion of "strongly recommended", I have a
>not-well-thought-out idea: allow "Content-Length: -1" to mean "I definitely
>don't (or can't) know the content length and I might use disconnect
>instead". This lets 1.1-aware clients know more than just "the server
>thinks it knows the length" and to be more prepared for disconnects.
This is likely to break some current software that would
think "-1" is equal to 0xFFFF bytes.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| BearHeart / Bill Weinman | BearHeart@bearnet.com | http://www.bearnet.com/
| Author of The CGI Book -- http://www.bearnet.com/cgibook/