Re: [Tclhttpd-users] Re: tclhttpd http protocol violation

[Colin M. <co...@ch...>]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:32 +0200, Michael Schlenker wrote:
> yahalom wrote:
> > I am trying to retrieve xml file that is accessible on my tclhttpd
> > server. I use .net for it (I hate .net but our customers seems to like
> > it). .net complains that tclhttpd committed http violation. the error
> > is:
> > Message	"The underlying connection was closed: The server committed an
> > HTTP protocol violation."
> > I looked at tclhttpd headers and they look fine. I googled and found
> > suggestions but none helped.
> > does anybody know what http protocol violation tclhttpd commits?
> > 
> Not sure, but maybe you should cc to the tclhttpd mailing list.
> 
> The only thing i could think of would be claiming HTTP1.0 but supporting
> some HTTP1.1 features. M$ should produce better error messages.

There is one place where I *know* the released version violates HTTP1.*
- in responding to if-changed-since, when responding to a request to
send a file only if it's changed tclhttpd sends a no-change header, with
a body or entity containing some verbiage.  The spec clearly says there
must be no such entity.  I guess MS could be picking that up and
complaining (although it'll be a cold day in hell when MS conforms to
specs, but that's another discussion.)

So, your correspondant might try getting the latest CVS version, where I
think I fixed that problem.

Colin.