On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 21:52 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > I'm -0 on the server trying to guess the Content-Length header. It just > doesn't seem like much of a burden to place on an application and it's > easier to specify that an application must do this than it is to specify > how a server should behave in the face of a missing Content-Length. I > also believe Graham has argued against making the server guess, I > presume this causes him some pain somehow (probably underspecification > in WSGI).
Graham's issues with requiring the server to set Content-Length are detailed here: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/10/wsgi-issues-with-http-head-requests.html _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
