- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 11:28:21 +0200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Am 03.08.2022 um 01:11 schrieb Austin William Wright: > Hello HTTP WG, > > I’m writing to pursue standardization of a PATCH media type to perform > writes at specific offsets. This may be especially relevant to > draft-tus-httpbis-resumable-uploads-protocol-02, if adopted. It can also > serve as the foundation for other features, like segmented uploading, > finishing indexes in video files, or other operations that require > editing at specific positions in a file. > > I wrote and published draft-wright-http-patch-byterange-00 > <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-wright-http-patch-byterange-00.html> for > your consideration. Please let me know your thoughts. > > Thanks, > > Austin. Hi Austin, it's a good idea to work on the media type for byte range patches. That said, adding another text-based multipart format makes me shudder due to all the inherent problems in parsing field names and choosing separator lines. I believe a simpler, binary format would be a better choice. Best regards, Julian
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