- From: David W. Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:50:44 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Dave Kristol wrote: > > In the discussion, the following issues seemed to have sufficient > > consensus in the meeting that "last call" will be sent to the > > mailing list for each of them: > > "chunked encoding" clarification > > The clarification was that leading zeroes would be allowed in the hexadecimal > byte count. > > As I thought about this a little, I realized some additional tweaking would > be required in the draft, both in the syntax and the description. In > particular, the syntax probably becomes > chunk-size = 1*HEX > but the description will need a caveat that the value of chunk-size must be > non-zero, except for the last chunk. Should the last chunk always be denoted > by "0" CRLF, or by 1*HEX CRLF, where the value of 1*HEX value is zero? If > the former, are we comfortable with zero-length, non-final chunks? There > could be the ambiguous case of chunk-size being, say "00". Well, I think the end flag should simply be a length value of ZERO. I don't see any percentage in making the specification more complex so why not treat a length of 0 or 00 or 000 etc. as the end indicator. Dave Morris
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