- From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 14:21:32 -0700
- To: "'http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com'" <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
The last sentence of section 3.12.1 says: "HTTP/1.1 implementations may ignore ranges specified using other units [than 'bytes']." I think that they might be able to ignore a Range _header_ on a GET, and return the whole entity, but that's not such a good idea on PUT, because it would clobber the whole entity with something that was intended to replace only a part. Hence, I think talking about ignoring range units is difficult out of context of where they are used, which is what this section attempts. I think this sentence should be deleted, and any appropriate error handling info added to the Range: header section. There isn't isn't any now -- I'll think about that and post a message. ---------------------------------------------------- Paul J. Leach Email: paulle@microsoft.com Microsoft Phone: 1-206-882-8080 1 Microsoft Way Fax: 1-206-936-7329 Redmond, WA 98052
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