Re: A modest proposal
Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:13:35 PDT
> For the transition phase I still think that we should add Lou's SIZE
> parameter to I-M-S. Most of the cache corruption is truncation due to
> the fact that HTTP uses closing of connection as EOF and far too many
> implementations leave truncation unnoticed (and it's not even possible
> to notice it if there is no C-L header).
Why is getting someone to pay attention to 'size' easier than getting
them not to cache truncated data or data without C-L?
If the data didn't have a C-L in the first place, how would the server
be able to check the length against a I-M-S parameter?