On Sunday, March 18 2001, "Mayank Sharma" wrote to "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" saying:
> If the sip message to be sent is larger than the mtu provided by the
> lower layer packet, We can fragment the packet into a number of packets and
> send it across. We fragment the message in the following way.
In general, I don't think that fragmenting SIP messages is a good idea --
you really shouldn't be sending messages larger than the IP fragmentation
minimum in general. If you need to send that much information, use
external URLs and HTTP, so the client can download it or not as they wish.
(I'd really rather have a *choice* as to whether my mobile phone downloads
your 200MB TIFF showing who's calling...)
That said, if you must do this, there's already a MIME type defined for
fragmented messages -- message/partial. (I believe it was designed for
posting large binaries to Usenet, back when there was a maximum message
size.) See RFC 2046.
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Jonathan Lennox
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