- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:59:34 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>* chunked is only allowed once, as the last transfer encoding > applied. okay by me >* before chunked is applied, only one T-E should be sent, > but recipients should accept all combinations (as long as > there are no duplicates). No, that's unnecessarily restrictive. >* no T-E's other than 'chunked' may be applied to multipart/ > content-types, but T-Es are allowed within a multipart type > (e.g., multipart/byte-ranges, multipart/form-data). No, that would violate the whole model. multipart types are payload in HTTP. Furthermore, MIME does not allow T-Es within body-parts, only C-T-Es. >The entire transmission is required to be either with content-length >or else self-delimited where multipart is the only self-delimited >media type, but chunked, gzip are self-delimited T-Es. That would be a new requirement. Non-delimited response bodies are still allowed in HTTP/1.1. I do agree that if a non-delimited T-E is used, chunked should be required on top. ....Roy
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