- From: David - Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 23:03:45 -0800 (PST)
- To: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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.
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