[dev] [cvs] commit: framework/Browser Browser.php

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting "Kevin M. Myer" <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at curecanti.org>:
>
>> slusarz     2005-12-10 17:34:46 PST
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    Browser              Browser.php
>>  Log:
>>  I can't remember why we disabled Content-length for HTTP 1.1 servers.  But
>>  the RFC (and browsers) expect this information.  According to RFC
>> 2616 [4.4(3)],
>>  the only time you would not send a Content-Length header is if the
>>  Content-Transfer-Encoding header is sent.  Since we control the
>> headers being
>>  output in downloadHeaders(), and we don't send this header, we should be
>>  sending the Content-Length header.
>
> Apparently to fix broken browser behavior..
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=imp&m=104354282712696&w=2

Thanks... my search strings weren't finding anything.

If this is the reason... 2003 would have been before Mozilla 1.0 was  
released.  So it doesn't make sense to keep suppressing Content-Length  
as it seems to work fine on Mozilla now.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]