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Subject: Re: Content-Length (was Re: Banner)
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 16:05:11 CDT

Liviu Daia:
> > > - Drop Content-Length:.
> >
> > That's good. But should it be configurable?
>
> It should be, who knows what devious scripts depend on it.
>
> On a second thought, there's also another way to look at it: in
> MIME-related legalese, the body of a message is an attachment, and
> "Content-Length" is an attribute of that attachment. [*Sigh*] Whoever
> invented 7-bit channels and their logical consequence content encoding,
> deserves to die a slow, painful death.

You lost me. How can a sender know the exact number of bytes of
mail that is stored on a different machine, or does the count assume
that everyone everywhere stores mail as CRLF delimited text? What
about the Contrl-Z at the end? :-)

        Wietse