On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:58:44PM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Mon, 2009 Aug 24 21:42+0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > > > > I have just been going through the RFCs. Even if thttpd is only doing > > HTTP/1.0, it says > > > > Applications should use this field to indicate the size of the Entity- > > Body to be transferred, regardless of the media type of the entity. A > > valid Content-Length field value is required on all HTTP/1.0 request > > messages containing an entity body. > > > > So, I think this is a thttpd bug, not apt-cacher. > > Are you sure that quote is from an RFC? I see it in > draft-ietf-http-v10-spec-05 (on the w3.org site), but not in any RFC > docs. > > In any event, though it could be more explicit on this point, I think > it's stating that a Content-Length field is required on [POST] requests, > not necessarily server responses.
I think you are right. Shouldn't read these late at night! Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
