On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Cory Nelson wrote:

> Curl fails with a "transfer closed with * bytes remaining to read" when
> Debian stable's thttpd responds with a 304 Not Modified. It seems this is
> because of thttpd including Content-Length in the response headers:

Indeed. As I read section 10.3.5 in RFC2616, the phrase "the response MUST NOT
include other entity-headers" implies this.

> I realise this is more of an oddity of thttpd (it has been removed in a
> future version) but aren't HTTP clients supposed to ignore headers that
> don't make sense for the response?

There akready is code in libcurl that is written to ignore the Content-Length
of a 304 response. (Around line 700 in lib/transfer.c)

What libcurl version is this? What kind of conditional did you use? I would
like to add a test case for this and try it myself.

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