Re: FW: Digest mess
Jeffrey Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
Mon, 05 Jan 98 10:28:40 PST
Joel N. Weber II writes:
I doubt base64 will ever stop existing. It will probably always be
present for backwards compatibility. Servers could stop supporting it
(most web servers I use already don't use it, since the info on them is
publicly accessible), but a client might as well keep code that supports
it, in case a user ever needs it.
One other reason: HTTP/1.1 includes the Content-MD5 header, which
specifies the use of base64. Content-MD5 is optional (and perhaps
not even particularly useful?), but its use of base64 is presumably
a settled decision.
-Jeff