On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Petr Onderka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Regarding #7 in that list (Expect: 100-Continue), I think it would be nice
> if Wikimedia wikis did this.
>
> I know that at least in .Net, if I send a POST request to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php,
> the Expect: 100-Continue header will be set, which results in an 417
> Expectation failed error.
>
> .Net has a switch to turn that header off, and with that the request will
> work fine.
> But I think it would be nice if Wikimedia wikis supported this.
>
> I think this is an issue with something in Wikimedia's configuration
> (Squid? or maybe something like that) and not MediaWiki itself, because it
> works fine for my local MediaWiki installation even with Expect:
> 100-Continue set.
>

Well, PHP and Apache do not support the 100-Continue workflow, i.e.,
there's no way to tell Apache to let PHP do its thing before sending the
100-Continue and receiving the rest of the data.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]
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