On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:59:13 EST, "Simon St.Laurent" said:
It's a plausible risk only if HTTP 1.1 or other protocols are explicitly
reopened and modified. Otherwise, it's pretty easy to point to the spec
and say "No. That's forbidden." It might be a good idea to present these
If you haven't been in the industry long enough that it takes you more
than 30 seconds to think of at least 5 vendors(*) of software who aren't
dissuaded from doing something just because the standard says explicitly
not to do that, you haven't been around enough to see *seriously* broken
software.
Careful reading of the MIME specs will reveal that a *large* portion of
all the prohibitions against this, that, and the other thing aren't
there to prevent a good programmer from implementing something known to
be impossible. The prohibitions are there to stop poor programmers
from implementing possible things incorrectly.
/Valdis
(*) Conglomerates such as IBM and Microsoft only count as one vendor
each, no matter how many offending companies/divisions they own.