RE: chunked enc. (Was: Re: draft minutes, HTTP-WG meetings April
Henry Sanders (henrysa@exchange.microsoft.com)
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:31:26 -0700
> non-zero, except for the last chunk. Should the last chunk always be
> denoted
> by "0" CRLF, or by 1*HEX CRLF, where the value of 1*HEX value is zero?
> If
> the former, are we comfortable with zero-length, non-final chunks?
> There
> could be the ambiguous case of chunk-size being, say "00".
>
I would prefer the second option of "1*HEX CRLF, where the value of
1*HEX is zero." It seems cleaner than having to treat "0" and "00"
differently, and I can't think of a case where intermediate zero length
chunks are useful.
Henry