> While you could simply ingore the ACK, that 
> probably isn't helpful in getting things working.

I don't disagree; however my understanding is that it has the same
benefit/curse of discarding responses.  Did rfc3261's recommendation
concerning discarding responses have anything to do with UDP delivery
issues potentially resolvable by a retry?


> I'd be inclined to just pad out the message to the specified length. 
> That then may result in a body that is incorrectly formatted. 
> But for ACK that will only be the case if there is an ansswer 
> in the ACK. If so, you can then cope with the errors found in 
> the body.
> 
> But generally this is an error case that you can cope with as 
> find works best for you.
> 
>       Paul
> 
> Brett Tate wrote:
> >> Please can you tell me the behavior of UAS in the following case:
> >> If UAS is getting the ACK with content-length more than the actual 
> >> body length and all the headers are correct?
> > 
> > See rfc3261 section 18.3.  However since there is no 
> response for ACK, 
> > the "SHOULD generate a 400" does not apply.  The ACK should be 
> > discarded similar to what occurs for responses.
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