[5646] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Holding connections open: an immodest proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fisher Mark)
Fri Sep 16 09:06:58 1994
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 14:53:40 +0200
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From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
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First: I like Phillip Hallam-Baker's idea of MIME multipart/mixed
implemented via multiple Content-Length headers. It is clean and fast.
Secondly, the fuss about processing time for MIME using boundaries I think
is misplaced. Unless I miss my guess, the processing time constraints on
the Web are chiefly on the server side, esp. if the client sends a proper
list of Accept headers on initial requests (which does force clients that
want to save documents in client-unrecognized formats to disk to re-run the
request). On the server end, adding boundaries to MIME messages should only
take a single system call per boundary instance.
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Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
"Just as you should not underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon
traveling 65 mph filled with 8mm tapes, you should not overestimate
the bandwidth of FTP by mail."
