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Re: Sedning Multipart/related MIme data using chunk encoding ?

From: John Stracke <francis@ecal.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:57:14 -0400
Message-ID: <3B856E2A.3040203@ecal.com>
To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com 
Aniruddha Shevade wrote:

>1) Is it possible for the  a mime boundary to be split across chunks
>
Yes.

>2)   How does one know that a given part of mime multipart data has ended
>?  Teh only way one can tell is by looking at mime boundaries and if teh
>mime boundary is in the middle of the chunk then that means bufering the
>data and searching for the mime boundary
>
Not necessarily.  You could just run a state machine on the incoming data.

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