- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 20:22:13 -0700
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: Rajeev Dujari <rajeevd@microsoft.com>
A question has come up, is it legal for a server to send a multipart/byteranges with a single range? This apparently causes some very ugly code on the client side if it is legal. The following is an excerpt from section 19.2 of RFC 2068: 19.2 Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges When an HTTP message includes the content of multiple ranges (for example, a response to a request for multiple non-overlapping ranges), these are transmitted as a multipart MIME message. The multipart media type for this purpose is called "multipart/byteranges". My reading of this section is that a multipart/byteranges can only be sent if there are byte rangeS but there has still been some question. 1) Is it correct that multipart/byteranges can only be used if there are multiple, as in more than one, byteranges? 2) Either way, can we put in a sentence to clarify the matter? Thanks, Yaron
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