- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:04:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- cc: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> tis 2010-06-08 klockan 00:17 +1200 skrev Adrien de Croy:
>
>> I don't see any point in having an integrity check for a message
>> containing only a partial range. Surely you want to accumulate the
>> entire entity by piecing together all the parts, and then you use the
>> MD5 to check the total.
>
> My view also, but others have read it differently in past, and the spec
> is ambigious on which reading is right with a bit blurred definition of
> 206, response entity, full response entiry and partial response entity.
Roy made some clarification in part3 today (see [874]), so basically we
have implementations like Apache violating the spec (it sends the C-MD5 of
the whole representation), should we warn that as of today, server
implementations are at best inconsistent when they send C-MD5 on 206, or
ask client that they SHOULD ignore C-MD5 on 206?
[874] http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/874
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~~Yves
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