Re: [Simple] MSRP chunking and MIME fragmentation

[Ben Campbell <ben at nostrum.com>]

In the forthcoming draft, we have removed the dependency on 
multipart/byteranges to support chunking. Therefore the text you 
mention is no longer relevant.

On Jul 18, 2004, at 1:33 AM, Eric Burger wrote:

> Last I looked, MSRP is a transport protocol.  Thus, I don't understand 
> the
> normative statement in Section 6.3.1:
>
>   "The sender MUST NOT include a completion-flag of "+" if the payload 
> MIME
> type does not support content fragmentation."
>
> Is not the User Agent Server buffering and reconstructing messages?  
> That
> said, if it does, we should point out in the security considerations 
> section
> that someone can say they are sending a fragmented message and then 
> never
> send anything again, holding resources forever at the UAS.
>
> If the UAS is not buffering and reconstructing messages, and we are 
> saying
> you can only send things like "message/partial", there is no MSRP
> fragmentation: MSRP only EVER sends complete MIME objects.
>
> Given the usefulness of sending chunks as a proxy for streaming, I 
> would
> suggest just dropping the normative statement.
>
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