On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:37:58PM -0600, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T wrote: > > The major speed up factors when doing this in multipart mime are: > > > > 1. Streaming bytes from and to disk for attachments. > > 2. No Base64 round trip > > 3. No base64 means less data transferred > > > > Seems like I'm missing another one, but those are the biggies. > > I knew there had to be more to it than what I was understanding. Any > chance you could point me to a reference for multipart mime requests? > I ran a goog this morning but ended up with lots of email oriented > hits.
The canonical reference is RFC 2046 section 5.1. Also see RFC 2387 for multipart/related, which is probably what CouchDB will want to use. It's actually pretty simple, as you can see by looking at some lightweight MIME implementations which handle only multipart, e.g. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/lib/soap/mimemessage.rb?view=markup Regards, Brian.
