- From: Robert Brewer <fumanchu@aminus.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:09:56 -0800
- To: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>, "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > So far, discussion of this issue > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/90> > seems to centre around disallowing the use of multipart/byteranges > as a message delimiter, because it is not widely implemented, and > because chunked encoding can be used instead. > > Any objections to doing so? and Brian Behlendorf answered via his time machine [1] > The main purpose of this algorithm is graceful recovery from > aborted transfers. Robert Brewer fumanchu@aminus.org [1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/ange/archives/archives-95/http-wg-archive /1868.html
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