Re: [core] Handling potentially-large resource representations

Zach Shelby <zach@sensinode.com> Thu, 09 September 2010 10:46 UTC

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On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Peter Bigot wrote:

> Block is really messy once you get into the details, but if we only
> permit the server to send the option when it's present in the request,
> and we require ETag to be included in every response message that
> includes the block option, I think these problems can be avoided.


Sounds like reasonable advice to me, but I'll defer to the authors of coap-block to take this into account. 

Zach

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