Re: What is CONTENT?

[Alex French <afrench@vianetworks.com>]

There could also be more meta-data, e.g. a content-length header. How about 
"An ordered sequence of octets, plus associated metadata". I'd keep away 
from "finite" since a live stream must be treated as potentially infinite 
(ie, you don't want to try and store the whole thing before forwarding).



At 04:57 PM 08/11/2000, Barron Housel wrote:
>By "typed" I simply meant the type of the content via the "content-type" http
>header: txt/html, jpeg, gif, mpeg, etc.  The type is necessary to tell the CDN
>surrogate how to deliver the data stream -- e.g., real time streaming
>audio/video or file transfer.
>Barron
>
>Alex French wrote:
>
> > At 11:09 PM 07/11/2000, Mark Day wrote:
> >
> > >Barron's suggestion is that CONTENT is a "typed finite sequence of 
> octets."
> > >While this is correct, it seems incomplete.
> >
> > I'm unclear as to what "typed" means in this context.
> >
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> > Alex French
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