On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> Thanks. So, from a client perspective, they might expect any of the
> following behaviours when sending a chunked POST;
> a) success
> b) 411 Length Required
> c) 5xx error
> d) connection close (proxy crashed or other fatal error)

e) a malformed/invalid message reaches the server (proxy
corrupts message body and/or headers because it does
not understand what is going on); the server reaction
is difficult to predict, but it might include "200 OK"
if the server/CGI was not able to detect that the message
got corrupted and, for example, interpreted a portion of
the POSTed data only (the worst case).

Alex.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Kugler" <kugler@...>
> To: <http-compliance@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [http-compliance] Chunked POST
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> > Mark-
> >
> > I can't speak for the official position. The primary interoperability
> > problem is due to CGI 1.1 (and earlier). CGI REQUIRES a CONTENT-LENGTH.
> > Some servlet engines also have this restriction. Another possible
> problem
> > is due to proxies: a proxy server is allowed to coalesce all the chunks
> > into a monolithic request. In practice, you never see this, because it
> > could require ulimited buffer space on the proxy server, and because it
> > has bad effects on response time.
> >
> > -Carl
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> > "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@...>
> > 06/10/2002 10:14 PM
> > Please respond to http-compliance
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> > To: <http-compliance@yahoogroups.com>
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> > Subject: [http-compliance] Chunked POST
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> > Can someone remind me what the state of the art is re: chunked POST?
> From
> > what I can see, it's allowed, but there's not a good interoperability
> > story with 1.0, so it's mostly avoided.
> >
> > What's the official position, and what can a client reasonably expect if
> > they chunk a POST and there's a 1.1 server somewhere in the message
> path?
> >
> > Thanks,
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