Re: Worries about content-length

> Hmm, is it that much easier? In order for the server to guarantee that the
> `random' string is unique it must parse the stream before it can generate
> one and then it might as well calculate the content-length?

You can guarantee (with adequate probability) that the end string is
unique without parsing the data, by using a sufficiently good random
number generator.

I guarantee it.

Larry

Received on Monday, 8 May 1995 13:36:05 UTC