But did we reach agreement? I wasn't sure.
>As you noted, in the cases where the content length is not known such
>as from server scripts, a packet approach would be nice. My personal
>take is it's not worth it to modify HTTP/1.0 to support packets like
>this as that support is already speced for HTTP-NG. Retrieving n files
>with known lengths is the most common case (i.e., a homepage with seven
>images) and is the most interesting one to optimize especially
>considering the trivial changes needed by the client and server.
Not trivial. I'm on a filesystem that might not tell me
(usually doesn't) the exact number of bytes. :-(
>John
-- Rick Troth <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/