Re: is (web client) ready for use even for the simplest task?

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

>> (http-post "http://www.google.com/";) 
>>
>> the POST request is sent without the Content-Length header
>
> RFC 2616 makes it clear that the Content-Length header is optional.

Sorry, I should have qualified this statement with "in this case",
i.e. when there's no body.  (web client) does add a Content-Length
header when there's a non-empty body.

It should also add a Content-Length header when an empty body is
provided, but it doesn't.  I'll fix this soon.  Anyway, the work-around
I provided adds a Content-Length header explicitly, so it works around
this problem too.

For the record, I didn't write this code; I'm just fixing it.

     Mark