Vijay, Richard,
On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:15, Vijay K. Gurbani wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 11:46 AM, Y. Richard Yang wrote:
>> Hi Rich, Vijay,
>>
>> No action makes sense to me. From this experience, I may suggest that we
>> add a suggestive sentence about
>> potential issues of not handling chunked encoding, just for the benefit
>> of readers. What do you know?
>
> Richard: I am rather conflicted on what to do. Clearly, nc is not a
> RFC2616 client, and just as clearly, any RFC2616 client will support
> chunked encoding.
>
> I also realize that we spent some time at the bakeoff looking at the
> byte count prefix in nc(1) but not correlating it immediately with the
> "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header, so saying something seems
> appropriate.
IMO there is no need to say anything. RFCs are about interoperability. The ALTO
protocol spec states that RFC2616 compliance is a MUST, therefore the
specification should not make accommodation for interoperability with clients
that do not conform to RFC2616.
I think doing anything else would lead to re-iterating the whole of RFC2616.
Ben
>
> In the end, I think I will chalk this upto us being tired and cranky
> late at night.
>
> But, if the editor team of the protocol document can find a place to
> exhort implementations to pay attention to transfer encodings applied
> to message bodies without reiterating rfc2616, then please proceed. I
> tried to spend some time thinking how to do this, but could not arrive
> at a reasonable set of words. So alas, I cannot contribute any text
> to get you started ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> - vijay
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