IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> ADM - Minutes from PWG IPP Phone Conference - 98011

Re: IPP> ADM - Minutes from PWG IPP Phone Conference - 98011

Ned Freed (Ned.Freed@innosoft.com)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:34:12 -0800 (PST)

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> The weakness with the MIME way is that it's either unsafe or slow -- either you
> arbitrarily pick a boundary string and hope that it doesn't appear in the
> binary data, or you prescan the data to make sure. Content-length avoids those
> problems.

Actually, the fact of the matter is that it doesn't have to be either -- it is
quite easy to generate boundaries which in practice are so statistically
unlikely to ever appear in the message text that the chances of, say message
corruption as a result of undetected network errors are many orders of
magnitude greater.

Ned

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