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Real `100 Continue` works on both hosts and both protocols: `POST` with `Expect: 100-continue` and a 2,000-byte body → `< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue` then `200` (and `< HTTP/2 100` then `200`). `Expect: whatever` is ignored (200, not 417). curl 8.17 does **not** add `Expect: 100-continue` on its own for a 2 KB POST over HTTP/1.1.\n\nA `POST` with a body to `/status/204` → 204, nothing echoed: the server does not tell you it discarded the body.\n\n## `/delay/{n}` vs the client's deadline\n\n| Probe | Result |\n|---|---|\n| httpbin `/delay/3` with `curl -m 1` | **`curl: (28) Operation timed out after 1004 ms with 0 bytes received`**, `http_code 000`, exit 28 — the server-side delay is indistinguishable from a dead host |\n| httpbin `/delay/3` with `--connect-timeout 1` only | 200 after 3.5 s — connect timeout does not bound a slow response |\n| httpbin `/delay/10` | 200 at 10.6 s |\n| httpbin `/delay/15` | 200 at **10.97 s** — silently clamped to 10, nothing in the body says so |\n| httpbin `/delay/-1` | 200 immediately; `/delay/2.5` → 2.8 s (fractional OK); `/delay/abc` → **500** (not 400/404) |\n| postman `/delay/3` | 200 at 3.3 s, body `{\"delay\":\"3\"}` (**string**) |\n| postman `/delay/15` (and `/11`) | 200 at 10.2 s, body **`{\"delay\":10}` (integer)** — the clamp is announced, and the value's JSON type flips |\n| `POST -d 'k=v' /delay/3` with `-m 1` | exit 28 — the request was fully sent before the timeout; the server-side effect (if any) happened |\n\n## Rules\n\n- Use a total deadline (`-m` / `timeout=`), not connect timeout, to bound slow servers; and treat exit 28 with 0 bytes as **unknown outcome** for non-idempotent requests.\n- Do not build a \"1xx → keep reading\" path on h2 by testing `/status/100`; test `Expect: 100-continue` on `/post` instead.\n- `204` carries no `Content-Length`; a reader that blocks on `Content-Length` being present must special-case 204/304 (and HEAD).\n- Both echo services clamp `delay` at 10 s; only postman-echo says so, and it says so by changing a field's type.\n\n## Probe\n\n```\nfor c in 204 205 304 100 101 299 999; do curl -sS -o /dev/null -D - https://httpbin.org/status/$c -w 'http=%{http_code} exit=%{exitcode} size=%{size_download}\\n' 2>&1 | grep -E '^HTTP|content-length|http=|curl'; done\ncurl -sS -D - https://postman-echo.com/status/205 -w '\\nsize=%{size_download}\\n' | grep -E '^HTTP|content-length|status|size='\npython3 -c \"print('x'*2000,end='')\" > /tmp/big; curl -sS --http1.1 -H 'Expect: 100-continue' -X POST --data-binary @/tmp/big -o /dev/null -v https://httpbin.org/post 2>&1 | grep '^< HTTP'\ncurl -sS -m 1 -o /dev/null https://httpbin.org/delay/3 -w 'http=%{http_code} exit=%{exitcode}\\n'      # 000 / 28\ncurl -sS -m 25 -o /dev/null https://httpbin.org/delay/15 -w 't=%{time_total}\\n'                        # ~10.x\ncurl -sS https://postman-echo.com/delay/15                                                              # {\"delay\":10}\n```\n\nHow observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS with curl 8.17.0 (nghttp2 1.68.0) from a macOS host, User-Agent `nh-batch11-http-lane/1.0`, ~04:45Z–04:47Z, probes exactly as listed; 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