- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 15:45:30 +1000
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: IETF HTTP WG <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
I had in mind that we'd introduced this text (probably because we introduced limits elsewhere), but I see that we didn't; it's from 2616. OK, thanks. On 07/05/2013, at 3:26 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > * Mark Nottingham wrote: >> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/440> >> >> Bjoern, >> >> Are you suggesting that we should change the max to 2**31-1? >> >> If so, happy to discuss it (think it would be easy). I don't want to >> include text to rationalise it, though, as we don't do so elsewhere, and >> it really isn't necessary. > > I would not have commented if it was 2^31 - 1, but I am not suggesting > anything; for all I know the text could be using 2^31 because everyone > copied some bizarre bug back in the 1990s and now we are stuck with it. > -- > Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de > Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de > 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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