Re: Byte range PATCH

Am 09.08.2022 um 07:45 schrieb Austin William Wright:
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>> On Aug 6, 2022, at 05:25, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
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>> "Similar" is not good enough. Existing parsers are likely to be tolerant
>> in parsing due to existing buggy clients, and if we reuse these parsers
>> the same problem will leak in here.
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> Of course! I should have been clearer about what I’m suggesting.
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> Given the choice between writing a new parser or forking an existing one, I’m suggesting that forking an existing one, or adding a argument/flag, may be easier than writing a new one in many environments.

Technically, maybe. Procedurally, I don't think so. Do you expect
existing server frameworks will extend their HTTP/1.1 parsers for this,
and expose them as a standard API?

> That said, I will still see if I can adapt the binary HTTP message format, including in such a way it could be sent by servers in response to Range requests.
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> Thanks,
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> Austin.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 9 August 2022 06:09:16 UTC