- From: John C. Mallery <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 00:32:26 -0400
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
At 7:56 PM -0700 1996-08-29, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> Under the circumstances, the spec could say
>
> #1 chunk = chunk-size [ chunk-ext ] *(SP | HT) CRLF
> chunk-data CRLF
>
>and explicitly disallow any other LWS between chunk-size and chunk-data CRLF
>(as it does for the other cases where CRLF is acting as a delimiter).
>
Your description would require the ";" to immediately follow chunk-size
and padding to appear between the ";" and CRLF.
The present known server and client implementations are handling this:
#2 chunk = chunk-size *(SP | HT) [ chunk-ext ] CRLF
chunk-data CRLF
Although one reference client doesn't parse [ chunk-ext ], and so
might need a small hack to detect ";" and skip *(SP | HT) to the CRLF.
Another alternative could be:
#3 chunk = chunk-size *(SP | HT) [ chunk-ext ] *(SP | HT) CRLF
chunk-data CRLF
This would seem most robust, if a little longer.
Received on Thursday, 29 August 1996 21:36:25 UTC