On Fri, 16 Dec 1994, Albert Lunde wrote: > As I said earlier (while many of you were off at the IETF?), I'm > increasingly convinced that HTTP messages are (as the recent spec > suggests) MIME-like, not MIME conforming. With so many other > deviations from MIME, I suggest we should drop the (rather complex) > MIME multi-part structure based on boundaries, etc. and only allow > multi-part messages defined by a Content-Length byte count. Yeah! Other than the fact that MIME existed as did tools for processing, I have never understood why an 8bit clean protocol like TCP/IP is cluttered with the syntax of mail/MIME (a comment was made at the IETF that MIME semantics for multiple part content with a new binary syntax might make sense). I haven't had time to read any drafts on HTTP-ng yet but I'm hoping that the binary encoding I hear mentioned deals with eliminating (minimizing) ascill headers by using nice terse binary structures.Received on Thursday, 15 December 1994 23:04:45 UTC
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