Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul writes:
It's an abort() to quickly catch bugs (the content
length value should
always be checked and _never_ trusted) and to force people to fix
them.
We could eliminate the abort() but then the incentive for fixing the
real bug will be reduced :-)
it is very bad idea to make proxy owner to pay for bugs in UAs. if
proxy returns an error to UA, it is the best incentive for the UA owner
to fix the bug.
-- juha