Re: new editorial issue RANGE_WITH_CONTENTCODING
Graham Klyne (GK@acm.org)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 12:22:04 +0000
At 15:52 14/11/97 -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>The spec does make it explicit, at least to the extent that general
>discussion of encodings can be explicit. On-the-fly compression is
>a transfer-coding. Source-based compression is a content-coding.
>
>The problem is that people keep trying to wedge both into content-coding
>instead of just defining on-the-fly compression with Transfer-Encoding.
I am *assuming* that your reference to 'transfer-encoding' maps to MIME
'content-transfer-encoding'. If this assumption is false, please ignore
this comment...
The MIME specification STRONGLY discourages (its capitals) the creation of
new content-transfer-encoding values. I would think that this would
encourage designers to try and shoehorn transfer-encoding semantics into
content-coding headers.
GK.
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Graham Klyne