ok so then ; fair enough ; imagine the world in two ways: I have a
permissive Mode and strict Mode ; yes sorry for the formatting ; as I am
not an english native speaker and I learned it in the adulthood listening
to radio ; I think I will always have a weirdo way to express simple
things ; mostly I should pay attention ; and always double check before
posting.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Nico Williams <nico_at_cryptonector.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:23:14PM -0700, mm.w wrote:
> > sorry you did not got what I said ; the both sentences where not
> separated
> > ; if you get twice different Content-Length you can lie ; [...]
>
> I admit to having difficulty parsing this.
>
> > [...] ; yes some proxy
> > servers returns a body ; they can even have non-standard values for
> > Transfer-Encoding
> > ;
>
> Is this the reason that RFC7231 says the client should ignore
> Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding?
>
> Incidentally, sometimes you just have to fix busted peers. Today I ran
> into a server that rejects TLS 1.2 when used with SHA-256, and that
> rejects connections from clients offering SSLv3 and higher. That server
> just needs to be fixed; there are too many clients that would have to
> workaround it, and we can't be boiling the oceans to interop with every
> broken peer.
>
> > Can you name any such proxies ?
> >
> > yes I could ; but would not be fair.
>
> I'm inclined to fix bug #39 as proposed and let you -or anyone else who
> needs it- contribute any CURLOPTs for falling back to the old behavior.
>
> > At the end so yes they should be totally ignored ; but from time to time
> > you can't.
>
> This isn't useful. I'm asking for details that help me construct an
> acceptable patch.
>
> Please review the proposed patch (it's a one-liner) and the comments
> about adding CURLOPTs for working around old, busted proxies.
>
> The patch I will be sending (i.e., the patch I posted + changes to the
> tests) will not have any CURLOPTs for restoring old behavior unless I'm
> asked to.
>
> Nico
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