  Re: "205" status code  From: Jamie Lokier
<jamie@shareable.org> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:46:49 +0100 To:
Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk> Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org Message-
ID: <20040919154649.GA24675@mail.shareable.org>  Joe Orton
wrote: > The section on the 205 status code text includes the
text: >     "The response MUST NOT include an entity" > The
Apache httpd proxy code treats 205 like 204 or 304: implicitly
no > message body, regardless of any Content-Length/Transfer-
Encoding headers > sent.  > It wasn't entirely clear whether
this was correct from 2616: neither > section 4.3 or 4.4
mentions 205 alongside 1xx, 204 and 304 as responses. > Can
anyone clarify?  For 204 and 304, it says      the 204[304]
response MUST NOT include[contain] a message-body,     and thus
is always terminated by the first empty line after the
header fields.  For 205, it says      The response MUST NOT
include an entity.  Spot the difference?  (Message-body vs.
entity).  Section 4.3 is quite precise:   Section 4.4 is less
preci