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Re: Content Sniffing impact on HTTPbis - #155

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:53:24 +0000
Message-ID: <7789133a1001261253g4e11d84bib839e72fec30242a@mail.gmail.com>
To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> tor 2009-06-18 klockan 09:13 -0700 skrev Adam Barth:
>
>> The intent is after transfer and content encodings are removed.
>> What's the correct way to refer to those bytes?
>
> There is no unique defined HTTP term for this, so "entity-body with
> transfer and content encodings removed".

I've side-stepped this issue by having the algorithm operate directly
on sequences of octets.  Whatever specs decide to require use of the
algorithm will need to figure out where to get the octets from.

Adam
Received on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:54:18 UTC

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