Re: #90: multipart/byteranges

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > They aren't used that way.  I don't know of any implementation
> > that uses the multipart delimiter to find the end of body (they
> > use CL, chunked, or a closed connection).
> 
> Hmm.. you may be right. On a closer inspection I see that I misread some
> of the data. Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> So it looks like dropping 4.4 §4 entirely may be an option.

If it's possible to drop support for multipart/byterange delimited
messages, because it's not used anyway, that would be a really good
thing imho.  It's an ugly, pointless, unused and probably poorly
implemented complication in message parsers.

-- Jamie

Received on Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:17:56 UTC