Re: DIME Use Case?

Simon Fell <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:16:00 -0700, in soap you wrote:
> >So, you're saying that it's worth inventing an entirely new
> >packaging protocol to avoid writing the relatively trivial
> >amount of code required to handle MIME boundaries?
>
> No, I'm saying its worth it, to remove the runtime penalties
> associated with it. [both on the generation and parsing side]
I'm not convinced that these penalties are at all substantial.
Do you have measurements that show that they are?

However, even if they were, surely it would be simpler to
define a new "chunked" Content-Transfer-Encoding for MIME
than to define an entirely new protocol.

-Ekr

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