- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 15:07:39 -0800
- To: hallam@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> I was reading the previous version of the HTTP spec. In Roy's new draft the > chunked encoding includes a footer...! Uh, the HTTP/1.1 draft has always had that. > One nit for Roy, the spec as written specifies that chunked encodings use the > string "0" to indicate end of stream as opposed to a length of 0. The difference > is that a conformant application could use "0000" as a length which according to > the spec would specify a chunk _not_ end of chunks :-( Nope. The chunk-size is defined such that it excludes leading zeros, so no compliant implementation can send "0000" as a length. ...Roy T. Fielding Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu) University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056 http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
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