On Jan 7, 2011, at 12:13 AM, Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote: > On 2011-01-06 14:14:32 -0800, Alice Bevan–McGregor said: >> There was something, somewhere I was reading related to WSGI about requiring >> content-length... but no matter. > > Right, I remember now: the HTTP 1.0 specification. (Honestly not trying to > sound sarcastic!) See: > > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#Entity-Body
You've misread that section. In HTTP/1.0, *requests* were required to have a Content-Length if they had a body (HTTP 1.1 fixed that with chunked request support). Responses have never had that restriction: they have always (even since before HTTP 1.0) been allowed to omit Content-Length and terminate by closing the socket. HTTP 1.1 didn't really add any new functionality to *responses* by adding chunking, simply bit of efficiency and error detection ability. James _______________________________________________ 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
