I knew I found my calling as a nitpicker...

Does everyone else get the same answer when they take this quiz?

How grammatically sound are you?

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

"If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it
 should be.  Congratulations and thank you!"

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Implementing Trailers in HTTP

Leo seems to be having problems implementing trailers in his NIO Java implementation. I think he overlooked that trailers have to be concluded with a blank CRLF.

3.6.1 in RFC 2616 says:

Chunked-Body   = *chunk
                 last-chunk
                 trailer
                 CRLF

Note that httpd 2.x does allow persistent connections with chunked:

% telnet cvs.apache.org 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: cvs.apache.org
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Trailer: Extension-Trailer

4
test
0
Extension-Trailer: foo foo
       foo

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:19:31 GMT
Server: Apache/2.1.0-dev (Unix)...
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: cvs.apache.org

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:21:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.1.0-dev (Unix)...
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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No surprises on my political compass.

Following Thom's link about the Political Compass, I took their survey and got:

• Economic Left/Right: 0.88
• Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.33

So, Economic Right/Social Libertarian. But, still relatively close to the center, which is probably accurate of how I'd describe myself.

In comparison to all of the lefties out here in California, I'm probably viewed as a militant right winger, but they've never lived out in the middle of the Bible Belt where my views tend to be incredibly liberal and progressive (and that's where I was born and raised, not out here in California).

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