Another bit of data to the whole client/server at fault issue: IE 6.0
behaves the same way as curl does given that HTTP response.

                                                                                                                               
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                      05/30/2003 09:50 AM
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For my problem, I'm trying to look at RFC2616 to try and understand if the
server response is valid. Section 4.4 seems to be the relevant section,
but it is still not clear to me as to who is at fault, however the way I'm
reading it today has me leaning towards the server being the culprit since
of the 5 scenarios it defines:

1) Any response message which MUST NOT include a message body - Not the
case
2) If a Transfer-Encoding header field is present - Not the case
3) If a Content-Length header field is present - Not the case
4) If media type uses multipart/byteranges - Not the case
5) By the server closing the connection - It does not. I put a trace on
and the FIN doesn't come, the server leaves the connection open.

So at least in what I've found, this specific case does not seemed to be
spelled out unless it is somewhere understood that if none of the above
measures apply than the client should assume a content length of 0.

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Received on 2003-05-30