Transfer-Encoding questions
rlgray@raleigh.ibm.com
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:31:31 EST
When decoding chunked (section 3.6):
1) chunk-size is an arbitrary length hex string; however, it does not
say anything about byte order.
I presume, since the first digit cannot be zero except for the
ending chunk, that it is intended to be little endian?
2) the spec is very vague on chunk-ext: it appears to be an extenstion
mechanism; what am I supposed to do if I don't understand it?
I presume ignore it.
3) what is the point of the CRLF after the chunk-data? We already know
the size; it is only likely to introduce bugs in implementations
that decide (falsely) that it is safe to just scan for CRLF.
(a year too late once again)
Thank You,
Richard L. Gray