Re: MIME vs. DIME vs. ...

--On 2002-04-14 15.08 -0700 Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> While creating a "safe" string can be done at some cost, finding it
> again when parsing the message is often the more problematic part.
> Having to look at every single octet is painful, especially for
> intermediaries who often have no reason to otherwise look at the data.

Having a string of length N definitly NOT means you have to look at every
byte. Searching algorithms are smarter than that.

There are things and misunderstandings like this which I mean are "ideas
about MIME being difficult".

   paf