[racket-dev] Racket web server doesn't handle POST requests with 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' ?

Yes. I should definitely fix that, whether or not I implemented
chunked transfers.

Jay

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>
>> There is nothing going wrong with the supported features of the Web
>> server. It's just that the Web server doesn't support any
>> Transfer-Encoding other than the default of no encoding.
>
> From RFC2616:
>
> "A server which receives an entity-body with a transfer-coding it does not understand SHOULD return 501 (Unimplemented), and close the connection. A server MUST NOT send transfer-codings to an HTTP/1.0 client. "
>
> Am I right in thinking that we're falling afoul of this "should", making us a "conditionally compliant" implementation of HTTP/1.1?
>
> John
>



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