MIME
From Fernseher
Revision as of 11:01, 13 January 2009 by 129.42.161.36 (talk)
Need to describe MIME headers and body types here, and what types of MIME bodies can be in multiparts/treed stuff, etc. This is really Entity, probably. Need to be able to distinguish between HTTP and MIME (mail) type entities. Also, an indicator as to whether the entity is currently encoded or decoded. Functions to encode/decode (to MIME transport spec, gzip, compress, etc). When the entity is encoded, it probably shouldn't be writable.
HTTP-Message -> HTTP-Request -> request-line CRLF entity HTTP-Message -> HTTP-Response -> status-line CRLF entity MIME-Message -> entity
entity -> headers CRLF (body | entity | multipart) multipart -> leader (CRLF boundary entity)+ boundary-end trailer
headers -> header* header -> header-name ':' header-value CRLF header-value -> values values -> (value-exp ',')* value-exp value-exp -> real-value (';' property-exp)* property-exp -> property-key ['=' property-value]
- Header comments are in '(' ')' and should not be kept except in the raw header value.
- Line folding can happen (header line followed by CRLF LWSP extra line).
- Be careful with cookies.
- Header contents can have double quoted strings for atoms.