On Mon, 20 Nov 1995 12:18:41 PST, "Roy T. Fielding" said:
I know what the spec says, and I say it is wrong. It is wrong because it
presumes that all header information meaningful to a body part has been
defined with the intention of being in a body-part. The fact is that
The spec doesn't say you can't have headers that dont start with Content-.
What the spec *says* is that any such headers are not canonical MIME and
thus you can't rely on them for any MIME-related processing. Think carefully
on that...
there are many header fields which may apply to an entity that were not
defined with body-parts in mind -- this arbitrary restriction prevents
MIME multiparts from being used for hierarchical encapsulation without
the additional overhead of the multipart/digest equivalent.
As opposed to the overhead of some *other* digestification scheme?
What was intended here?
Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Engineer
Virginia Tech