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Re: Libcurl request generating HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required error

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:46:58 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jacob Swed wrote:

> Not exactly. The problem is clearly that you don't know in what, if any,
> authentication will be required in advance. The "fake" GET is clearly a
> problem waiting to happen since the METHOD is still PUT, SEARCH, PROPFIND or
> whatever. The problem is that curl really needs to be doing a true PUT (or
> whatever) but with just the headers. It should then send the body only if it
> receives an HTTP 100 Continue response.

You are of course right. Your described approach is exactly what needs to be
done.

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Received on 2003-12-19