- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:07:21 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > Yes. If it doesn't preserve characters, all sorts of mess can result, > e.g., with ETag comparison, range retrieval, etc. > ... I was looking at <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.3.5>...: "Content coding values indicate an encoding transformation that has been or can be applied to an entity. Content codings are primarily used to allow a document to be compressed or otherwise usefully transformed without losing the identity of its underlying media type and without loss of information." ...and was asking myself: is perfect reconstruction of the original payload really required? Is there something we need to fix here? BR, Julian
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