- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Mark Brown <mbrown@openmarket.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> * "separated by a colon" should read "separated by a semicolon" Yes, will be fixed in the next revision of the draft. > * The draft is silent on how the server should respond to a > very large integer parameter, e.g. > > http://host/dir/foo;bytes=-123456789012345678901234567890 > > This might be treated as a syntax error or might be treated as the > largest integer that the server can represent. Any large number should be treated as the biggest possible value it can have. That is, the size of the document, size - 1, or whatever. In the above case, it would be the size of the doc. Will change to spec to be more clear about it. > * The draft says that large second numbers should be treated as referring > to the end of the document. The draft also says that the first > number must always be less than or equal to the second number. > Suppose that dir/foo is a 1-byte file and the request is > > http://host/dir/foo;bytes=9-10 > > Using the first rule the server transforms the request into > > http://host/dir/foo;bytes=9-0 > > Is this now an error according to the second rule? Or should > the server give some arbitrary response, e.g. return the last > byte of the file? Should be treated a zero-length range. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
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