On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Patrick McManus wrote:

> [Alex Rousskov: Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:07:10AM -0600]
> > 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).
>
> f) 100 continue

g) nothing (i.e., the recipient [erroneously] waits for more data,
without sending 100 continue)

Alex.