Re: IPP> MIME multipart/* vs HTTP

> From lawrence@agranat.com Wed Apr 30 12:05:41 1997
> 
> IPP> We believe that chunked applies to the entire multipart/mixed
> IPP> entity and cannot be used for one of the sub-entities alone.
> IPP> Thus there is no length to mark the boundary of a sub-entity.
> 
>   Correct; the 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' applies to all of the HTTP
>   message body.  For completeness, my companys' server implementation
>   does support chunked encoding of the entire multipart/* body part,
>   but we think it doesn't make much sense (because it is redundant) so
>   that support may be compiled out to save code.
> 

Why is chunking redundant? It seems important for the case where the
client doesn't know the length of the data at the beginning of the
transmission.  Without the Transfer-Encoding of chunked, HTTP/1.1 seems
to require a Content-Length for a client transmission (as a client, it
cannot close the connection and multipart/byterange doesn't seem
appropriate for clients to send).

Received on Wednesday, 30 April 1997 12:52:00 UTC