- From: Linus Upson <lupson@via.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 95 23:23:03 -0700
- To: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Cc: cshotton@biap.com, luotonen@netscape.com, brian@organic.com, dwm@shell.portal.com, john@math.nwu.edu, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com> writes: > It is most unlikely that anyone, or anything, could specify an > arbitrary byte range from an HTML document, and end up with > something legal (ie. displayable by itself). It gets even worse when you consider non-ASCII character encodings. Given just a chunk of bytes, you might not even be able to figure out what characters those bytes map to. And what about servers which can vend the same document in multiple character encodings? If I have a document stored in UTF-8 and can vend it in ShiftJIS or EUC depending on the Accept-Charset: parameter, it seems that "byterange" as part of a URL for this document is not well defined. Linus Upson
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