Hi, On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 00:24:15 +0200, Nick Kew wrote: ... > > Therefore it should be safe to assume if no Content-Length and no "chunked" > > headers are present there MUST follow an optional body with the > > connection-close afterwards as 'persistent connection' MUST NOT be present. > > Nope. GET requests routinely have keep-alive, but don't have bodies.
Just FYI squid-3.0 release notes: request_entities New squid.conf directive "request_entities on/off".If set to "on" then Squid will allow GET/HEAD requests with request entities, even if such entites are "undefined" in the HTTP specification. (Henrik Nordstrom) Anyway I have no longer standards compliance complaints as httpd-2.1 looks OK: On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 00:07:24 +0200, Roy T. Fielding wrote: ... > An HTTP request with no content-length and no tranfer-encoding has no body, > period: > > The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the > inclusion of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in > the request's message-headers. Oops, with the greatest regards to RFC author :-), Lace -- Jan Kratochvil; Captive: free r/w NTFS Filesystem; http://www.jankratochvil.net/