- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 95 22:36:40 EST
- To: montulli@mozilla.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Lou Montulli <montulli@mozilla.com> wrote: > Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > > > > Did your proposal include multipart/mixed responses for > > > keep-alive cgi scripts? That seems to be what everyone > > > is implementing. > > > > No, and I'm not aware of *any* implementation that does this. > > Is somebody holding out on me? > > > > Right now, CGI scripts just ignore keep-alive and close the connection. > > For the "official" HTTP/1.1, they can use the chunked transfer encoding > > instead of a multipart, if desired. > > Netscape navigator and the netscape server both use > "multipart/mixed" as per Alex's proposal. I'm not > aware of any server implementer's even wanting to > support chunked transfer encoding. I for one > will strongly fight against adding yet another > encoding form. FWIW, my (non-product) server supports chunking. Dave Kristol
Received on Monday, 13 November 1995 19:43:26 UTC