[Web-SIG] PEP 444 Goals

Alice Bevan–McGregor alice at gothcandy.com
Fri Jan 7 06:13:06 CET 2011


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

However, after testing every browser on my system (from Links and 
ELinks, through Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Konqueror, and Dillo) across 
the following test code, I find that they all handle a missing 
content-length in the same way: reading the socket until it closes.

	http://pastie.textmate.org/1435415

	- Alice.




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