- From: David - Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 11:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
- To: James Gosling <jag@scndprsn.eng.sun.com>
- Cc: NED@sigurd.innosoft.com, masinter@parc.xerox.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 8 May 1995, James Gosling wrote: > The "hack" aspect, in my opinion, to the random delimiter scheme comes > from being less than 100% solid. Admittedly, the probability of a > false match can be pushed arbitrarily small, but it cannot be made 0. > Given a good random number generator, I wouldn't worry about it too > much, except that it really feels like a bug waiting for a place to > happen. Agree! To the extent that content-length isn't specified. If it is, and it isn't correct, it is an error condition. I have a real philosophical problem with the design of non-deterministic protocols. It is not an unreasonable burden on HTTP servers to require accurate content-length nor do I believe it an unreasonable burden on UA to do the same. Dave Morris
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