IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP>PRO - http comments
Re: IPP>PRO - http comments
Robert Herriot (
Robert.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM)
Wed, 30 Apr 1997 20:27:05 -0700
> From masinter@parc.xerox.com Wed Apr 30 18:51:51 1997
>
> My take:
>
> It is illegal to send content where the content-length and the boundary
> string disagree. So one doesn't take priority over the other. A
> recipient
> should signal an error if it detects that they are different.
>
> Senders that are at all uncertain about the length of the data should
> omit content-length and rely on the boundary alone.
>
> Larry
>
If there is a Content-Length header with a value of n, can the program
skip over n bytes without looking for an erroneous boundary-string
within the n bytes?
I understand that at the end of the n bytes there must be a boundary string.