Re: #90: multipart/byteranges

On tor, 2008-11-13 at 17:10 -0800, 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?

None here, except that I don't really see it needed.

P1 4.4 Message Length (and 2616 4.4) already supports this view
indirectly, with multipart/byteranges being the next lowest priority
message delimiting, only close of connection has lower priority..

P1 4.4 #4 also considerably restricts when this media type is allowed
with a clear MUST NOT.

The text in the multipart/byteranges appendix is only relevant in the
scope where this media type is allowed to be used. P5 Appendix A.
Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges is also quite clear on that
this media type only applies to 206 responses under specific
conditions. 

So I can't find anything even remotely indicating multipart/byteranges
is meant to be generally accepted or parsed outside the context of 206
responses to multi-range request. 

Regards
Henrik