Re: Digesting the digest...

On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Peter J Churchyard wrote:

> Once you start digesting entity (bodies , headers) is is very important
> to be specific about the canonical form of the data that is being 
> digested.
> 
> Other other RFC's (PEM and or MOSS) have their own specs. It should be made
> clear how transfer codings etc do/don't impact. No canonical EOL for text/*
> types etc.
> 
> Hopefully if we make it clear then it will be implemented in a consistant 
> way. 
> 

There is also the issue of Proxies changing headers.  We need to be 
very careful here.  That may have been why it was just entity-body
before.  It would be nice to be able to define this in terms of HTTP/1.1
defined things.


John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
		john@math.nwu.edu

Received on Wednesday, 28 February 1996 14:00:07 UTC