- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:32:31 PDT
- To: Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: Keith Moore <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>, Patrik Fältström <paf@swip.net>
I think this is a typo, and that we have the opportunity to correct it soon. If there's no objection, we'll try to make this correction as the RFC Editor processes the document. (We're almost next on the RFC editor queue.) Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter > Looking at the definition of Chunked transfer coding > in draft-ietf-http-v11-rev-06.txt (section 3.6.1), one > reads: > > "The chunk-size field is a string of hex digits indicating the size > of the chunk." > > Shouldn't this read "the size of the chunk-data"? The chunk > itself is defined as > > chunk = chunk-size [ chunk-extension ] CRLF > chunk-data CRLF > > However, looking at how Web servers (Apache, IIS) implement chunked > transfer coding, it realy looks like chunk-size represents the size > of the chunk-data itself... > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks for any clarification,
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