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