[Bug 13794] I think length-prefixed messages would be a lot more useful than line-delimited messages. Sentinel terminators, especially newlines, are more error prone to generate and parse than a few bytes of length prefix followed by a message, repeat. In addition, t

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13794

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-10-04 18:36:09 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's a text format. Text formats are commonly delimited on newlines.

As Anne says, if there's a use case for binary blobs, we can add that feature
in the future.

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Received on Tuesday, 4 October 2011 18:36:14 UTC