Bug #1002: 304 (not modified) must have no Content-Length - Lighttpd - lighty labs

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Bug #1002

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304 (not modified) must have no Content-Length

Added by Anonymous almost 18 years ago. Updated over 17 years ago.

Status:

Fixed

Priority:

Normal

Category:

core

Target version:

1.4.17

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Description

According to RFC 2616 (section 4.3), these responses MUST NOT include a message body: 1xx, 204, 304. This means they should not have a Content-Length.
But lighttpd generates a "Content-Length: 0" for 304.

-- mihai_preda

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Updated by Anonymous almost 18 years ago

I found this too. This should better be fixed.

HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:40:06 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_fastcgi/2.4.2
Connection: close
Etag: "1880b-6797-43da2e2b"

HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified
Content-Length: 0
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:44:02 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.13

-- yasheng

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