Re: hallam@w3.org: Netscape Bug or KeepAlive Feature ?

[tail* of woe deleted]

>My inclination is to document the content as being followed by optional
>trailers whose end is indicated by a NULL line. Current programs and CGIS
>keep working and new applications which might expect such trailers
>can work as well.

This does not work because there are still a large number of clients which 
read until the close of connection. Footers can incorporate whitespace but text 
characters would appear en-screen.

I would like to see footers on all messages but I think that this is only 
currently practical with chunked :-(

Perhaps we simply define messages as having optional CRLF sequences for the time 
being.


	Phill


[*Geddit?]