- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:24:19 +0100
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2012-03-02 01:12, Adrien de Croy wrote: > > my vote would be for deprecation of the concept of extensions for the > range header. Unless we are going to allow extension for Content-Length, > we shouldn't allow it for Range. > > e.g remove other-range-unit from the BNF. > > Systems that want to request parts of things that aren't specified by > bytes can do that some other way. Absolutely no need to overload Range. > Otherwise a cache has an impossible job. > > Adrien No. Range units are in use, and there's nothing wrong with it. It's ok for a cache to ignore them; so there's no additional burden. Best regards, Julian
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