Hello,
No you need not to specify the Content-Lenght in the request (cf RFC). Otherwise the
client would need to know the size of the page he wants to retrieve ;-)
I have also tried with a Tomcat3.2.3 to do:
telnet 127.0.0.1 8080
GET /test/index.html HTTP/1.0 (return)
(return)
It is working : a CRLF (return) for finishing the GET line, another CRLF for finishing
the HTTP request,and I have the expected answer.
So if it it working for you, it is probably that Tomcat gets your first line GET ....
CRLF, ignore you Content-Lenght=2583, but also gets the CRLF of this 2nd line and
considers that the request is finished, so it serves you the page.
Xavier Marjou
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judith NATAF [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:56 PM
> To: Tomcat (E-mail)
> Subject: Content-Length
>
> I send the following request to Tomcat's web server
>
> GET /index.html HTTP/1.0
> Content-Length=2583
>
> If I specifie the CONTENT-LENGTH I get the index.html file.
> But, if I dont't specifie the CONTENT-LENGTH, I have a 404 error.
>
> How comes that Tomcat Web server is not able to determine the length ?
> Do I really need to specifie the length in my request ?
> Thank's for your help.
>
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