- From: Ted Hardie <hardie@merlot.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:37:21 -0700 (PDT)
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
In Section 3.17.2, the spec says that the if a last-byte-pos value is larger than the current length of the entity, it is assumed to be equal to the current length of the entity. From my reading, a server would thus send first-byte-pos to the end of entity. I'm afraid this behavior doesn't make sense to me. It seems to me that this should be treated as an invalid byte-range-spec, and that the recipient should ignore it and send back the entire entity. The sender already has a method of requesting from first-byte-pos to the end of the entity (by leaving off the the last-byte-pos), and I don't understand why we want to duplicate this behavior in response to what looks like an error. Ted Hardie
Received on Thursday, 25 April 1996 13:45:56 UTC