Re: A few initial comments on "CIP" protocol

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:13 PM 12/6/96 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
>> We (Chrysler & AIAG) are doing HTTP demos with PERL and since we are
>> including binary files in the 1867 (file upload) style we have byte counts.
>>  Works well.
>
>As I read RFC1867, the content is delimited by MIME boundaries,
>and precise byte counts (in the content-length header) are not required.
>Do you have to supply precise byte counts, or will approximate ones do?
>
>It's easy to get byte counts (in perl, on unix -- ymmv on other platforms
>or for other languages) if you're just transmitting a file.  But were I
>were generating calendar data on the fly, I'd hate to have to compute exact 
>byte counts in perl or any other scripting language.

I think the byte count is only really needed if you have a binary part
included.  Of course with CAD data, this is common :)

If all of icalendar is text, I'd lay odds that byte count is superfulous.


Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
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