- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:17:18 +0000
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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
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