- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 15:34:38 PST
- To: www-talk@w3.org
> ... a number of developers have mentioned that it would be easier to > process uploaded files if each file was given a content-length part > header. I know it's late in the game, but I thought it worth mentioning. This was an option in the original proposal, but was (vigorously) debated and ultimately removed, because * the boundary is a reliable indicator of the extent of the file data * if both content-length and boundary are present, you have to check the boundary anyway. * in some situations computing the content-length is difficult (although necessary for HTTP POST in some situations). That is, while developers might think it would be easier with explicit content-length parts, they're wrong. The RFC should probably have said this explicitly.
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