- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:27:07 +1000
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
I don't hear anybody arguing strongly that we should be closing this extensibility point (although I'm of half a mind to do so myself). If we keep it, it sounds like we want to just tidy things up, not establish a registry. I'm also thinking noting the relationship to caching and the issues associated with format-specific range units may be worth discussing when we document how to do this type of extension (see charter). Cheers, On 07/08/2008, at 3:40 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: > > > On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> >> Playing the devil's advocate: is there *any* range unit other than >> "bytes" we can think of that is indeed independent of formats? >> Right now, I can't think of any. > > CRLF or LF could be used as the defined separators for a "lines" > range count. This wouldn't be useful for all formats, but could be > useful for many text and text-based formats or even binary formats > that happened to use LF as a line separator. > > I know MS software uses "rows" counters for XML-formatted data but > as you say that's dependent on a particular format. I'm not aware > of any other implemented range units beyond bytes. > > Lisa > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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