411 Length Required error

[Dave Cheney]

It sounds like that browser is not spec compliant. You may have to  
fake a body by sending a form encoded parameter just to generate a  
dummy body.

Dave

On 29/11/2008, at 1:15 PM, Rocky Zhang <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I found that when I use POST method to request an AJAX
> function, the browser sends a request with neither body nor
> "Content-Length: 0".
>
> Igor Sysoev wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:26:29PM +0100, Rocky Zhang wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. If there is no chunked body, it works fine. If there is, we  
>>> could
>>> check its request header information and close it if we haven't
>>> implemented chunked body feature. Could we patch it?
>>
>> I do not understand what yuo want to get.
>>
>> Currently nginx does not support a chunked request body and returns
>> 411 error code for such requests.
>>
>> Also nginx returns the 411 error if a POST/PUT request has no
>> "Content-Length".
>> If the request has no body, then it must send "Content-Length: 0".
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