> -----Original Message----- > From: William A. Rowe Jr. > Sent: Montag, 26. September 2011 18:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: httpd 2.0.65 - when? > > On 9/26/2011 10:46 AM, Rainer Jung wrote: > > On 26.09.2011 17:35, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> All looks good... testing passes w/ no regressions so I'll > >> likely tag and roll tomorrow AM. > > > > Is there consensus how to handle the range "0-" returns 200 > problem? It > > looks like the discussion for 2.2 is still open, but I > haven't checked > > whether that influences the 2.0 patch. > > Agreed, if people decide our handling of range "0-" is not > desirable, this > would seem to be a showstopper on all three branches. > Personally, I find > the current behavior acceptable by the spec and per the > underlying errata > Roy has suggested. > > Clients should not be able to shift trivial processing (which > the client > is perfectly capable of performing) to the server in ways > that increase > network traffic or server load. HTTP/1.1 conversations must > be designed > to efficiently utilize network bandwidth, and these particular clients > did not do that. I'm on the fence whether we should restore > such abuse. >
I agree with you, but I am leaning towards to revert this behaviour, because there are too much "stupid" clients out there. So it looks like the "smarter" party has to give in :-). Sigh. Regards Rüdiger
