On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Alan Pinstein wrote:

> When you have a chance to think about the solution, let me know and I'll
> play around. I checked the RFC and Content-Length of 0 is completely legal,
> but I do see how it could be an area of risk for other servers. I tend to
> think the "HEAD" route is a cleaner way to go as from the client perspective
> we ALWAYS know whether or not we expect the server to be able to respond to
> a given request, so we could easily use HEAD until we know we're ready for
> the "final" request, with the correct VERB as well as the entire POST body.

I think going with HEAD until auth is done is the best way based on the
current facts.

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