RE: [wss] SwA | Canonicalizing Content-Length MIME header

["Maneesh Sahu" <maneesh@westbridgetech.com>]

The MIME headers besides Content-Length- MIME-Version, Content-Id, etc provide information not available in the MIME part’s body. One can infer the Content-Length from the size of the MIME Part’s body.

 

The Content-Length is a function of the Content-Transfer-Encoding that Lines 130 and 131 mention as out of scope. Also, this header is primarily meant for efficiency purposes while receiving data (setting up buffer sizes et al).

 

Maneesh Sahu

Westbridge Technology, Inc.

 

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From: Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com [mailto:Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:33 AM
To: Maneesh Sahu; wss@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [wss] SwA | Canonicalizing Content-Length MIME header

 

Maneesh

 

if the header is signed then it needs to be in a single format. 

 

Which information is redundant?

 

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment.

 

regards, Frederick

 

Frederick Hirsch

Nokia

 

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From: ext Maneesh Sahu [mailto:maneesh@westbridgetech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:31 PM
To: wss@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wss] SwA | Canonicalizing Content-Length MIME header

Frederick, All

 

What is the value in canonicalizing the Content-Length MIME header? This information is redundant.

 

Maneesh Sahu

Westbridge Technology, Inc.