- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:08:40 -0800
- To: "Robert Brewer" <fumanchu@aminus.org>
- Cc: "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
That seems to describe the general partial content mechanism (i.e., using byteranges negotiation in HTTP), not the specific motiviation for using multipart/byteranges as a message delimiter. On 14/11/2008, at 9:09 AM, Robert Brewer wrote: > 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 > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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