[5607] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Holding connections open: an immodest proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (HALLAM-BAKER Phillip)
Thu Sep 15 07:48:33 1994
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 13:32:13 +0200
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From: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch (HALLAM-BAKER Phillip)
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In article <8688@cernvm.cern.ch> you write:
|>Marc VanHeyningen writes:
|>
|>> The only real alternative anyone has suggested to Content-Length: is
|>> the MIME multipart boundary approach. It's not clear to me that
|>> that's better, and it sure as heck isn't backward-compatible.
|>
|>Content-Length is fine where the server is reading from file it can stat,
|>but becomes problematic where the response is generated by say a program.
|>
|>Another approach is to use a byte code escape mechanism, e.g.
|>
|> a) replace all occurrences of \ by \\ and '\0' by \0
|> b) use '\0' not preceded by a \ to denote stream delimiter
|>
There is already such a scheme in SMTP the sequence \cr\lf\.\cr\lf terminates
a stream and is escaped by \cr\lf..\cr\lf.
But it is real uggli bunnies.
--
Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
Not Speaking for anyone else.
