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Advisory Content-Length for HTTP
draft-nottingham-bikeshed-length-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Mark Nottingham
Last updated 2020-09-18 (Latest revision 2020-03-17)
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Abstract

The HTTP Content-Length header field is overloaded with (at least) two duties: message delimitation in HTTP/1, and metadata about the length of an incoming request body to the software handling it. This causes confusion, and sometimes problems. This document proposes a new header to untangle these semantics (at least partially).

Authors

Mark Nottingham

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