[Web-SIG] PEP 444 Goals

[Alice Bevan–McGregor]

On 2011-01-06 21:26:32 -0800, James Y Knight said:
> You've misread that section. In HTTP/1.0, *requests* were required to 
> have a Content-Length if they had a body (HTTP 1.1 fixed that with 
> chunked request support). Responses have never had that restriction: 
> they have always (even since before HTTP 1.0) been allowed to omit 
> Content-Length and terminate by closing the socket.

Ah ha, that explains my confusion, then! Thank you.

	- Alice.