Re: Reproducable apache 1.3.26 /modproxy issue viewing www.kbb.com

Geff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-proxy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 09:30, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2002, Geff wrote:
> 
> > 	1. mod_proxy is RFC compliant - So why break apache to
> > accommodate M$'s lack of ability to read and implement a standard
> > that was published in June 1999?
> 
> IMO, removing Content-Length header from 304 responses will not change
> alleged mod_proxy compliance. In fact, one could argue that removing
> entity headers is the right thing to do for proxy implementations
> trying to follow IETF cornerstone principle of "garbage in, compliance
> out".
> 

But to your point of Garbage in -> compliance out.  10.3.5 says, "no
entity headers in a 304 response."  So it seems to make more sense to
remove all or none.

Geff
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