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Re: Content Sniffing impact on HTTPbis - #155

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:13:46 -0700
Message-ID: <7789133a0906180913h45a08152xc7c63806fb6a8844@mail.gmail.com>
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann<derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
> I was referring to draft-abarth-mime-sniff-01, not any of the httpbis
> drafts. In the former there is for example "The user agent MAY wait for
> 512 or more bytes of the resource to be available." That could be 512
> bytes before removing chunked transfer encoding, all transfer encodings,
> the content encoding, etc. depending on which byte stream one believes
> "resource" (or "representation" per Mark's suggestion) refers to.

The intent is after transfer and content encodings are removed.
What's the correct way to refer to those bytes?

Adam
Received on Thursday, 18 June 2009 16:15:08 UTC

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