- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:36:26 -0600 (CST)
- To: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote: > This problem could be cleanly solved if we could zero pad the size > of a chunk. I.e. if a chunk size could look like > > 0057CRLF > > The current BNF disallows this, however. Is there some reason for > disallowing a leading zero? If this cannot be changed I suspect > we will end up with rather inelegant extensions like > > 57;pad="xxx"CRLF > > with a variable number of x's adjusted to create the padding. > > > John is right, but this was discussed at length at the time. I've > never heard a reasoned argument aginst the leading zeros but > it didn't get fixed then and its too late now. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is it? I thought changes in the light of implementation experience were sometimes possible. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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