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| -rw-r--r-- | networking/wget.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/networking/wget.c b/networking/wget.c index 7198197dd..b45811533 100644 --- a/networking/wget.c +++ b/networking/wget.c @@ -598,6 +598,31 @@ int wget_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv) /* eat all remaining headers */; goto read_response; case 200: +/* +Response 204 doesn't say "null file", it says "metadata +has changed but data didn't": + +"10.2.5 204 No Content +The server has fulfilled the request but does not need to return +an entity-body, and might want to return updated metainformation. +The response MAY include new or updated metainformation in the form +of entity-headers, which if present SHOULD be associated with +the requested variant. + +If the client is a user agent, it SHOULD NOT change its document +view from that which caused the request to be sent. This response +is primarily intended to allow input for actions to take place +without causing a change to the user agent's active document view, +although any new or updated metainformation SHOULD be applied +to the document currently in the user agent's active view. + +The 204 response MUST NOT include a message-body, and thus +is always terminated by the first empty line after the header fields." + +However, in real world it was observed that some web servers +(e.g. Boa/0.94.14rc21) simply use code 204 when file size is zero. +*/ + case 204: break; case 300: /* redirection */ case 301: |