- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 15:07:39 -0800
- To: hallam@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> I was reading the previous version of the HTTP spec. In Roy's new draft the
> chunked encoding includes a footer...!
Uh, the HTTP/1.1 draft has always had that.
> One nit for Roy, the spec as written specifies that chunked encodings use the
> string "0" to indicate end of stream as opposed to a length of 0. The difference
> is that a conformant application could use "0000" as a length which according to
> the spec would specify a chunk _not_ end of chunks :-(
Nope. The chunk-size is defined such that it excludes leading zeros,
so no compliant implementation can send "0000" as a length.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Wednesday, 7 February 1996 15:21:01 UTC