- From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:46:55 -0800
- To: "Life is hard... and then you die." <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, 'John Franks' <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: http wg <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> ---------- > From: John Franks[SMTP:john@math.nwu.edu] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 1997 8:17 AM > > > 2) I'm not very familiar with the details of these encodings, but I > > believe they aren't self delimiting. Is this true? > > > > I am not sure. But from the recent discussion it is very clear > that it is cruicially important that all transfer encodings be > explicitly defined to be self-delimiting or non-self-delimiting. > I am not sure this is done in the IANA registry. > Mumble. I'd guess that they aren't all self-delimiting. If so, and if they're implemented (likely, otherwise, how could they make it into the Draft Standard), then that means that Content-Length is de-facto the length of the message body. The same argument applies, by the way, the Transfer-Length -- if we add it, there won't be any implementations, so we'd have to recycle at Proposed (OK by me, but not necessarily to others). Paul
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