Re: error checking out in TortoiseSVN

Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> writes:

> As breser pointed on IRC all HTTP/1.1 applications MUST support
> chunked transfer encoding. From RFC2616:
> [[[
> All HTTP/1.1 applications MUST be able to receive and decode the
> "chunked" transfer-coding, and MUST ignore chunk-extension extensions
> they do not understand.
> ]]]
>
> And server is application:
> [[[
> server
> An application program that accepts connections in order to service
> requests by sending back responses.
> ]]]

On the other hand the RFC also says:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.12

  10.4.12 411 Length Required

  The server refuses to accept the request without a defined
  Content-Length. The client MAY repeat the request if it adds a valid
  Content-Length header field containing the length of the message-body in
  the request message.

I assume the server can send this error since it is in the RFC. The
client can only retry with a Content-Length request, not a chunked
request. So it appears that the only chunked support a server needs is
to be able to reply 411.

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