Re: What is Content-Length?

From: Life is hard... and then you die. <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 07:03:54 +0100 Message-Id: <3492254A.41D5093@psi.ch> To: http wg <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com> · This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:33:05 EDT

On Fri, 12 Dec 97, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:

> It seems like a mistake to get into the business of specifying
> self-delimiting transfer codings (aside from chunked, which is
> a generic way to do that).  This way, we have some modularity
> in the protocol design.  I.e., we have only three ways to find
> the end of a message (EOF, Content-Length, chunked); why add
> more?

I agree 100%. I'd like to see the lowest level of handling (determining
the end of a response) kept as simple as possible.

  Cheers,

  Ronald

P.S. There are _four_ ways to determine eom: multipart/byteranges is
     also one.