- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 98 10:28:40 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Joel N. Weber II writes:
I doubt base64 will ever stop existing. It will probably always be
present for backwards compatibility. Servers could stop supporting it
(most web servers I use already don't use it, since the info on them is
publicly accessible), but a client might as well keep code that supports
it, in case a user ever needs it.
One other reason: HTTP/1.1 includes the Content-MD5 header, which
specifies the use of base64. Content-MD5 is optional (and perhaps
not even particularly useful?), but its use of base64 is presumably
a settled decision.
-Jeff
Received on Monday, 5 January 1998 10:51:52 UTC