Re: Content-Transfer-Encoding "packet"

According to Dave Kristol:
> Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org> said:
> 
>   [...]
>   > Also, I've been playing around with various formats and have
>   > found that the optimum for most transfers uses a simple one-byte
>   > prefix to encode the length of each packet, with a zero byte
>   > indicating end-of-packets.
> Could you elaborate?  I'd be curious to know the tradeoffs you examined
> before choosing this approach.  In particular, was the overhead of an
> ASCII packet length (i.e., human readable) so onorous?

Also a maiximum packet size of 255 bytes seems quite small.  Could you
explain the rationale for that?

John Franks

Received on Monday, 24 July 1995 07:53:57 UTC