Before 817f7dc223, CONTENT_LENGTH variable was never considered,
http-backend was just reading request body from standard input until EOF
when it, or a command started by it, needed it.
Then it was discovered that some HTTP do not close standard input, instead
expecting CGI scripts to obey CONTENT
Hi,
Max Kirillov wrote:
> According to RFC3875, empty environment variable is equivalent to unset,
> and for CONTENT_LENGTH it should mean zero body to read.
>
> However, unset CONTENT_LENGTH is also used for chunked encoding to indicate
> reading until EOF. At least, the test "large fetch-pack r
According to RFC3875, empty environment variable is equivalent to unset,
and for CONTENT_LENGTH it should mean zero body to read.
However, unset CONTENT_LENGTH is also used for chunked encoding to indicate
reading until EOF. At least, the test "large fetch-pack requests can be split
across POSTs"
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