411 Length Required error

[Dave Cheney]

> It seems that Apache allowed always such requests (POSTs without
> Content-Length). I'm not sure should I add this ?
 
Looking into the RFC's it looks like Apache might be doing the right thing.

RFC1945:

   A valid Content-Length is required on all HTTP/1.0 POST requests. An
   HTTP/1.0 server should respond with a 400 (bad request) message if it
   cannot determine the length of the request message's content.

RFC2616:

   The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the inclusion

   of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in the request's
message-headers

So, 

POST /someurl HTTP/1.1
Host: whatever
\r\n
\r\n

Is a valid post request, but only in the case that the request does not
contain a body. If the post does contain a body, then it must be identified
as such with a Content-Lenth: header.

Cheers

Dave