Once I used the -H switch, everything works perfectly. Thanks so much; what
a great tool!

Chris

On 11/25/05, Chris Dawson <xrdawson_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is definitely a bug in lighttpd. I have been doing some research,
> and they respond with a 417 no matter what the request if it has the
> "Expect: 100-continue" header. Their rationale is that they are handling it
> "correctly" by rejecting it, but I would disagree.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> On 11/25/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Chris Dawson wrote:
> >
> > > I am getting closer. I think the issue is that lighttpd (the
> > webserver I am
> > > using) does not properly handle the "Expect: 100-continue" header. It
> > > always rejects this header with a 417 "Expectation failed" error, so
> > curl
> > > gives up after this. Is there a way to tell curl to not be so "nice"
> > and
> > > send the request in full without going through the expect request?
> >
> > Disable the sending of that header with -H "Expect:".
> >
> > I can't but to think that this is a bug in lighttpd.
> >
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>
>
Received on 2005-11-25