[8176] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP Content-length question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
Mon May 8 22:28:15 1995
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 22:07:00 +0500
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From: frystyk@w3.org (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
> >If this is the case then it is a server bug! The Content-Length header
> >should be sent whenever possible in a full response, and it should certainly
> >not have anything to do with the media type in which the object is rendered.
>
> NO, it's not as much of a bug as you might at first suspect.
> Objects which are text/html should really be converted from LF line
> delimiters to CR/LF line delimiters. That takes more work than just a
> quick stat(), which is sufficient for image/gif and audio/au (both of
> which are sent out as-is in binary). It is unfortunate that a number
> of servers are "lazy" and don't "canonicalize" text/html correctly.
This is prefectly OK, as HTTP/1.0 defines its own `canonicalization' of
type `text' and `application' where CR, LF, or any octet sequence defined
by a character set all represent the equivalent of CRLF, though only in the
entity-body!
-- cheers --
Henrik Frystyk frystyk@W3.org
World-Wide Web Consortium, Tel + 1 617 258 8143
MIT/LCS, NE43-356 Fax + 1 617 258 8682
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