Re: oh the irony

From: Joe Touch (touch@ISI.EDU)
Date: Mon Aug 02 1999 - 15:34:41 MDT


> To: Duane Wessels <wessels@ircache.net>
> cc: wrec@cs.utk.edu, webmaster@ISI.EDU
> Subject: Re: oh the irony
> X-Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:40:26 -0700
> From: John Dilley <jad@pimlico.hpl.hp.com>
>
...
> I've heard anecdotal evidence of content length being incorrect
> in responses and browsers having to accomodate that.

Seems like a browser might not care - just read until EOF.
Ditto for caches. Why is it necessary to trust this information
in the header?

Joe



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