Re: bin/45116 (/usr/bin/ftp fails to parse Content-Range header)

[lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost]

Synopsis: /usr/bin/ftp fails to parse Content-Range header

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost
State-Changed-When: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:45:04 +0000
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I brought this up with the chair of the IETF HTTPbis WG - that group
is chartered to revise & clarify HTTP 2616 (HTTP 1.1).
It was confirmed that the behaviour of ftp is correct, and the foreign
web server is incorrect.  I.e, ftp didn't ask for a Range, so it shouldn't
be getting a Content-Range response (especially without a 206 response).
See: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/301

Whilst the http handling in ftp could be improved, in this case I
don't believe that it has faulty behaviour.