Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Assumption about response headers

[Ivan J. <ijo...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Dean Michael Berris
<mik...@gm...>wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Ivan Johannessen <ijo...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Dean Michael Berris <
> mik...@gm...>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> What version did you download?
> >>
> > I downloaded the 0.6.1 tag and pulled in the changes from the 0.7 branch
> > that allowed me to compile without SSL support.
>
> Cool.
>
> >>
> >> In the case of the example, I don't think it adds the
> >> "follow_redirects" constructor option. I'll dig into it later but can
> >> you check whether the response is an HTTP 200 or an HTTP 302?
> >>
> > The http_client.cpp do follow redirects and the response is a HTTP/1.1
> > response with status 200. This issue is by no means a show stopper for me
> > but I pointed it out because I believe it is in disagreement of the
> > RFC: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
> > I could not find anything in the RFC that stated that a response without
> a
> > body "should" or "must" contain either headers.
> >
>
> That's odd, you don't get a body from the HTTP 200 OK response from
> www.google.com?
>
> That is correct.


> Conforming HTTP 1.1 servers should use an HTTP 204 No Content response
> instead if it doesn't intend to send a body. Although an HTTP 200 OK
> should have either a "Content-Length" or "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
> last time I checked.
>
> I'll try to look deeper into this though, thanks for reporting.
>
> Ah, looks like google is not doing the right thing. Thanks for a great lib.
I'll be using it in a cross platform(Windows/OSX/Linux) app soon.

Ivan

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