- From: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:08:43 +1300
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
I'd be in favour of deprecating them.
In fact come to think of it, since WinGate re-chunks data going through
(since it needs to de-chunk it for filters), they are effectively
stripped anyway.
Adrien
On 22/10/2010 3:29 p.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
> What do people think about deprecating the use of chunk-extensions -- i.e., requiring that they be consumed, but not produced?
>
> chunk = chunk-size *WSP [ chunk-ext ] CRLF
> chunk-data CRLF
> chunk-size = 1*HEXDIG
> last-chunk = 1*("0") *WSP [ chunk-ext ] CRLF
>
> chunk-ext = *( ";" *WSP chunk-ext-name
> [ "=" chunk-ext-val ] *WSP )
> chunk-ext-name = token
> chunk-ext-val = token / quoted-str-nf
>
> I haven't seen any practical uses for them, and haven't seen any implementations that do anything with them other than throw them away.
>
> Regards,
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> Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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