Re: FW: Digest mess
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu)
Mon, 05 Jan 1998 10:52:20 -0800
>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.
Yep, a MIME inheritance. It turns out that Content-MD5 is not useful
at all for HTTP/1.1, since the combination of the error-free transport
layer and length-delimited content is sufficient.
....Roy