- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:18:17 -0400
- To: rlgray@raleigh.ibm.com, HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
At 04:38 PM 10/14/96 EST, rlgray@raleigh.ibm.com wrote: >Thanks for the answers. One more question: > >I see nothing in the spec that prevents a PUT of a chunked (possibly >multipart) byterange. > >Is this intentional, did I miss something, or am I the only one who >has no clue why one would want to do it? No, you may indeed want to upload a document using chunked transfer encoding. libwww in fact does that if it for some reason doesn't know the size. Data objects can just as well be generated dynamically on client side as on server side. Byte ranges are likewise most useful for example if you are handling very large objects. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-356 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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