- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 15:12:52 -0800
- To: Alexei Kosut <akosut@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us>
- Cc: Philip Thrift <thrift@osage.csc.ti.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> I think you're misreading the line following the one you indicated: > >> > (Section 10.39). Proxies/gateways must remove any transfer coding >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > prior to forwarding a message via a MIME-compliant protocol. The > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Remember, HTTP is not a MIME-compliant protocol. But if you have a gateway > that's translating HTTP to, say, email, you need to "remove any transfer > coding", because MIME email agents won't know what to do with it. That's > all that line is saying. If you've an HTTP proxy through and through, > then there's no need whatsoever to remove the encoding. > > Of course, I may be wrong. But that's my take on that sentance. And it is exactly the right take -- that is what Appendix C is all about. ......Roy
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