Re: NEW ISSUE: status of multipart/byteranges

* Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> Actually no, with neither Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length the
>> message would be seen as having no body and the type would not affect
>> the message length, so "If the message uses the media type ..." should
>> really be "If a response uses the media type". This does not affect
>> the rest of the issue though.
>
>In RFC 2616, section 4.4, no mention is made of "206 responses", only:

Well the item talks about messages in general, so I took that to suggest
a Content-Type: multipart/byteranges indicates the presence of a message
body, but that interpretation is likely incorrect. Without message body,
section 4.4 does not apply at all.
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