Re: A new suggestion on 100 CONTINUE
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:28:11 -0700
>If the POST has no body the headers must contain a "Content-length: 0"
>line, so the server knows (i.e. this is not an implementation problem for
>my suggestion).
>
>This does illustrate my point though. Isn't it a little bit brain dead
>to *require* a "100 CONTINUE" for a POST with no body?
That is brain dead. The intended requirement was that it apply to
any request that includes a message body and not be tied to the method
definition at all. The definition provided in 2068 is wrong.
>Incidentally, when a client waits for and gets a "100 CONTINUE" after
>sending the headers of a bodyless POST, what does it send?
Nothing [and that is explicitly covered in section 10.1.1]
....Roy