curl-users
Re: POST a large file over HTTPS to IIS-5 problem
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:26:49 +0100 (MET)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:26:49 +0100 (MET)
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Veselin Terzic wrote:
> I have a feeling that "curl" is not completely in accordance with HTTP RFC
> 2616 section 8.2.3.
> I do not see Expect [expectation = "100-continue"] header sent by
> "curl" before curl starts to dump data stream at the server.
That's correct. It only does this by default for multipart formposts.
> In my case IIS 5 server does send 100-continue header, but looks like curl
> has already started data stream.
Right.
> I think it would be a good idea to add 100-continue expectation to curl in
> case data stream is to follow HTTP headers.
Yes, and also since this practise is recommended by the RFC2616.
Please go ahead and make the changes and mail us a patch!
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