- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:44:27 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Scott Lawrence wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, John Franks wrote:
>
> > One thing that I don't like is
> >
> > nc-value = 8LHEX
> >
> > It should be
> >
> > nc-value = *LHEX
>
> I was the one that specified the fixed size (implying leading zeros)
> originally (though I think that I used 4 rather than 8); my thinking was
> that it would avoid any potential problems with one side using the
> leading zeros and the other not. I can live with it either way.
>
How about doing what is done for the chunked TE and using
lhex-no-zero = <LHEX excluding "0">
nc-value = lhex-no-zero *LHEX
to forbid the leading zeros. I think that at least 99% of the time the
nc-value will be a single digit. It is kind of wasteful and silly to
require an enormous number of
nc=00000001
fields. I suppose for backwards compatibility we should as
servers to tolerate the leading zeros.
John Franks
john@math.nwu.edu
Received on Thursday, 23 April 1998 08:52:36 UTC