On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Clark C. Evans wrote: > If you are going to go this far (including content-length) may I > just suggest using a MIME envelope? This has several advantages: This is a very good idea, but not this time, as it's too easy to get stuck in the endless churn of very good ideas and alternatives.
I would think the MIME-envelope would have to be part of the data, rather than in the header. Or am I missing anything? It's encode/decoder determined, is it not?
The simple header format, without the null byte (taking it out is a good idea, since we may have the possibility of an all-text file in that case),
I have no particular feeling about the null byte. It would just be a convenience when debugging as it would allow you to just print the string, as it would be null-delimited. The CRLF (or just the CR or just the LF) could serve as an end of header marker just as well.
Liz
